tacit
The Border Patrol, acting in the name of domestic security, has put an end to the "unofficial" rowboat crossings that local and federal officials had tacitly allowed for years.
The defendant's own lawyer has tacitly conceded that the appeal has no merit.
Most of us still tacitly assume the relationship to be one of cause and effect.
In using money, people agreed tacitly to such an unequal distribution.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
f-bomb
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced

Examples of tacitly

tacitly
His influence is felt - tacitly or explicitly - in the very structure and function of ethics committees today, and he will be sorely missed.
Or we might say that by entering the military service, the private has tacitly or explicitly promised to obey orders from his superiors.
The difference between a background proposition and a presupposition is that the former, unlike the latter, is not tacitly entailed but stated by the utterance.
While on the surface it complacently played this role, it tacitly contested it as well.
Moreover, actresses' improved status was possible only because society was tacitly accepting a wider sense of individuality for women in general.
More such assumptions will be made, some tacitly, as we proceed.
In the insurgents' case, a discretionary attitude was adopted and their method of payment tacitly accepted.
Their importance to the country's manufacturing and wholesaling sectors has been tacitly recognised during the colonial and post-colonial periods.
By its brevity on the subject of ethnicity, the old stylebook had tacitly assumed that a few modest precautions were sufficient to avoid giving offense.
Finally, it must also be noted that my characterization of social science tacitly assumes well-intentioned users.
By tacitly taking sides with the views and needs of only one involved party, they preclude alternative perspectives and solutions.
By the mid-1950s union political activity was generally (if tacitly) accepted, as were the mechanisms through which business funds were turned to political action.
Further, there is the tendency of civil groups of elders and political leaders to support these groups, tacitly or otherwise.
We are tacitly assuming that the function is so concentrated that integral limits can be taken at infinity.
In fact, the excise proposal itself also acknowledged this point tacitly, by excluding companies producing less than 100 gross a day.
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