TACITLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tacitly mean? 

• TACITLY (adverb)
  The adverb TACITLY has 1 sense:

1. in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement

  Familiarity information: TACITLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACITLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement

Context example:

they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day

Pertainym:

tacit (implied by or inferred from actions or statements)

 Context examples 

Also, it was tacitly understood that it was to be a long engagement.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Equations are usually and sometimes tacitly accompanied by the requirement to establish these conditions.

(Equation, NCI Thesaurus)

Can you seriously ask me, Harriet, whether I imagined him attached to another woman at the very time that I was—tacitly, if not openly—encouraging you to give way to your own feelings?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was as if I had seen her admiringly and tenderly embracing Dora, and tacitly reproving me, by her considerate protection, for my hot haste in fluttering that little heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She tacitly accepted it and, in a way, seemed aware of it from her own studies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had only himself to please in his choice: his fortune was his own; for as to Frank, it was more than being tacitly brought up as his uncle's heir, it had become so avowed an adoption as to have him assume the name of Churchill on coming of age.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If I tacitly checked this playfulness, and persisted, she would look so scared and disconsolate, as she became more and more bewildered, that the remembrance of her natural gaiety when I first strayed into her path, and of her being my child-wife, would come reproachfully upon me; and I would lay the pencil down, and call for the guitar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The episode was tacitly and secretly intimate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is not my intention, he continued reading on, to enter on a detailed list, within the compass of the present epistle (though it is ready elsewhere), of the various malpractices of a minor nature, affecting the individual whom I have denominated Mr. W., to which I have been a tacitly consenting party.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Utterly differentiated creatures that they were, they were lonely in their misery, and though the misery was tacitly ignored, it was the bond that drew them together.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)