tacit
Common misspellings:
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- tait (100.0%)
Usage examples for tacit:
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He did not ask him how Miss Leighton was getting on; but Wetmore launched out, with Alma for a tacit text, on the futility of women generally going in for art.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes" – William Dean Howells -
Meanwhile, between him and his mother a certain tacit understanding began to make itself felt.
"The Marriage of William Ashe" – Mrs. Humphry Ward -
The Italians, their hereditary foes, are being driven back, and on the Russian front there seems to be a sort of tacit truce- no fighting and visiting in trenches, etc.
"Face to Face with Kaiserism" – James W. Gerard -
It would have been no more than natural had the question of the property been, by tacit agreement, always kept out of sight between the two young men.
"Ralph the Heir" – Anthony Trollope