diplomatically

[ dip-luh-mat-ik-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that relates to or makes use of diplomacy, or negotiations and other relations between nations:

   Earlier, attempts had been made to solve the dispute diplomatically through the Organization of American States.

2. delicately or tactfully, so as not to offend:

   Even negative opinions or criticism can be framed positively and diplomatically.

Other Words From

• non·dip·lo·mat·i·cal·ly adverb
• qua·si-dip·lo·mat·i·cal·ly adverb
• un·dip·lo·mat·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of diplomatically¹

diplomatic ( def ) + -ally ( def )

Example Sentences

These dinners set the standard for presidential and diplomatic dining in the early republic.

From Washington Post

Other major nations and regions — some of which have also sidestepped scientific rigor in their hurry for an immunization shot — are instead engaged in a race of unprecedented proportions for global diplomatic and economic influence via vaccines.

From Ozy

“ChAFTA was the high watermark of Australia-China relations, going back to 1972 when diplomatic relations began,” says Michael Shoebridge, director of the defense, strategy and national security program at the Australian Strategic Policy institute.

From Fortune

Through it all, Fauci has been characteristically diplomatic.

From Washington Post

For his part, Grenell said he’s been fighting within the State Department and the diplomatic community to say, “that’s a crazy idea” and the United States should be leading at the forefront of the issue.

From Washington Blade

The U.S. was wrong-footed diplomatically and militarily humbled.

From The Daily Beast

He believed the more you aided Israel militarily, the more flexible they would be diplomatically.

From The Daily Beast

U.S. policy is going down the drain in Syria diplomatically and militarily.

From The Daily Beast

The result, to put it diplomatically, has been chaotic and not a little alarming as a matter of law—and medical ethics.

From The Daily Beast

The Americans refuse to pay, saying the charge is a ‘tax’ from which they are diplomatically immune.

From The Daily Beast

Observable, only, that Hotham and Dubourgay sat silent in the tripudiation; with faces diplomatically grave.

From Project Gutenberg

The Continental Powers diplomatically met the Czar on his own religious ground.

From Project Gutenberg

I asked him to fire it off: read it; read it, I diplomatically added, as only he could read dramatic poetry.

From Project Gutenberg

The young man, suffering from extreme nervous excitement, was in the worst possible mood to act diplomatically.

From Project Gutenberg

Briefly he explained the character of the meeting, but diplomatically he held back his real purpose in taking her to it.

From Project Gutenberg