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Definitions for tacitly
tac·it·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
tacitlyadverb
in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement
"they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day"
Wiktionary
tacitlyadverb
In a tacit manner; done in silence or implied.
Your failure to object to the request resulted in you tacitly approving the change.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tacitlyadverb
Silently; without oral expression.
Etymology: from tacit.
While they are exposing another’s weaknesses, they are tacitly aiming at their own commendations. Addison.
Indulgence to the vices of men can never be tacitly implied, since they are plainly forbidden in scripture. John Rogers, Serm.
ChatGPT
tacitly
Tacitly refers to something done or understood without directly expressing it or speaking about it openly. It typically implies implied or inferred actions or understandings, often characterized by indirectness, subtlety, or silence.
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Anagrams for tacitly »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tacitly in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tacitly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of tacitly in a Sentence
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
But here's one thing that we can feel, we know, if our rhetoric about each other gets that mean. When we don't just disagree with people, but we start demonizing them, making wild, crazy allegations about them. That creates a dangerous climate. And if elected officials don't do more to explicitly reject that kind of rhetoric, if they tacitly support it or encourage their supporters to stand up inside voting places armed with guns and dressed in tactical gear, more people can get hurt, and we're going to be violating the basic spirit of this country.
By vacating the decision below and ordering the lower court to dismiss the suit as being moot, the Justices avoided either tacitly endorsing or rejecting the lower court's analysis, leaving no federal precedent to govern the question of whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was allowed to extend the deadline for receipt of mail-in ballots last fall.
Acosta acknowledges Trumps working-class base and captures the shock that reverberated with his upset win. But he fails to place the rage and resentment in the larger context of how America and the west reached this inflection point, acosta should address all this after he tacitly cops to acting like an advocate or editorialist, as opposed to simply reporting breaking news or calling balls and strikes. In his words : Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesnt really serve us in the age of Trump.
The longer that we allow the political rhetoric of late to continue, and the longer that we tacitly accept it, we create a permission structure that allows the animosity in one corner of our politics to infect our broader society, and animosity breeds animosity.
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