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Laconic meaning
Communicative through the use of as few words as possible. | Communicating through the use of as few words as possible. | Laidback; casual; not intense.
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Example sentences (15)
In the years since her career-defining role as the sarcastic and laconic April Ludgate, Plaza has been playing a variety of roles intended to show off her acting chops.
Former and current F.B.I. officials said he was a cross between the laconic and hard-charging Mr. Mueller, who ran the bureau for more than a decade after Sept. 11, and Mr. Comey, whom they viewed as too focused on his public persona.
I commiserated with Denis about how to wring the most possible action out of the wave, but he was appropriately laconic for a local.
Mr. Crosby, the laconic, blue-eyed heart throb, was already an American institution.
While his laconic baritone has remained gloriously consistent, the genre styles explored in each of his releases have been wildly disparate.
While there is no definitive indication that the vaccines are edging closer to approval, the Director-General has given laconic projection as to what it will cost to procure the vaccines worldwide.
Goldstein, a laconic Canadian, wanted Kine to solve the mystery of the picture on the Welcome Back, Kotter lunchbox from the 1970s – it depicted a strange scene that was never actually on the show.
He followed that with The Moving Target, also known as Harper, in which Paul Newman played a laconic private eye.
Opening tonight’s show: Detroit’s laconic, lo-fi country band Bonny Doon.
To the contrary, the writing ought to be laconic, but clear.
According to both accounts, the Spartans' laconic reply was one word: "If".
A very prescient comment was made by the laconic Yorkshire and England fast bowler Tom Emmett who, after playing against Grace for the first time in 1869, called him a "nonsuch" (without equal) who "ought to be made to play with a littler bat".
Because this was the manner of philosophy among the ancients, a kind of laconic brevity.
That the stoic Fafhrd is paired with the voluble Ningauble, while the story-loving Mouser with the laconic Sheelba is doubly ironic.
The word laconic is derived from the name of the region by analogy—to speak in a concise way, as the Spartans were reputed by the Athenians to do.