Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Briefly; concisely: as, a sentiment laconically expressed.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a terse manner, given to using few words.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a laconic manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a dry laconic manner
Etymologies
- From Laconia, the section of ancient Greece the Spartans came from, who were notoriously short of speech. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Brooks replied, "laconically" that right before Christmas of that year, his mother's house in Chesterfield was burned to the ground.”
“She's made of it," laconically, "and I aims to stay by her.”
““After you wit’ heem,” a bird called laconically, squeezing past going the other way and tutting in annoyance when they shoved her aside.”
“Alastair Morgan remarked laconically on Friday that the only hope now for the murderers to end up in jail would be if one of them "finds God".”
The Guardian: Daniel Morgan was murdered. Now it seems justice is dead too | Duncan Campbell
“Totally against the rules, during homeroom period, he'd laconically lounge out in the hall, always with a toothpick peeking out of the corner of his mouth.”
The Huffington Post: Binky Philips: Sam & Dave Take Me to School, 1968
“The parole licence notes laconically that in 1879 "this prisoner rendered prompt assistance in protecting an assistant matron when assaulted … in the Protestant chapel during divine service".”
The Guardian: Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online
“The lack of understanding of how money is made and the rewards given to those who make it," he notes laconically, "are as relevant today as they were in the days of Savonarola.”
“They were that big," Payne says laconically, before admitting that she suffered a mild panic attack.”
The Guardian: Keri-Anne Payne on the perils of the long-distance Olympic swimmer
“In Foraker's telling, someone is "laconically murdered," a preacher works up a "pulpit sweat" and—slyly—"husbands know best; that is understood.”
The Wall Street Journal: Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age
“Reagan was determined to “stay the course,” although he noted laconically in his memoirs that “the turnaround took a little longer than I expected.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘laconically’.
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please pass the ly
Words that end in -ly that are nouns.
Please do not include words with double ll, for instance: ally, bully, belly; or words that can also be adjectives, for instance: elderly, melancholy.contumely, family, supply, reply, anomaly, assembly, doily, fly, homily, lily, monopoly, panoply and 20 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Eilonwy's Words
edify, kindred spirit, verisimilitude, etymology, epitome, extemporaneous, eccentric, illuminate, renaissance, resplendent, dichotomy, tranquility and 75 more...
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Tom Slowies
Weeeelllllll, tom swifties really but I don't think of them very often. There are zillions out there in internet land so I'm looking for fresh, really awful ones :-)
endogamously, barked, inferred, philosophically, magnanimously, carmine, murmured, judiciously, disgustedly, deduced, uttered, posthumously and 15 more...
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Essay words
Words I've written down in class/found in other places to use in literature and english essays on different texts.
expiatory, auspicious, potentiate, convivial, garner, hubris, oration, abervant, adumbrate, apalostic, louche, odious and 32 more...
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tom swifties
emphatically, unthinkingly, precariously, meritoriously, unceasingly, coaxingly, fervently, copacetically, sibilantly, laconically, overbearingly, incorrigibly and 66 more...
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pricejosephd's list
withering, finical, lope, bromide, cachet, catatonic, coadjutor, laconically, limn, exonerate, illusory, farcical and 43 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for laconically.
fbharjo cow pokely with a different mix Jul 15, 2011
bilby "Los Angeles is rife with mountebanks and shysters," said Tom laconically. Nov 28, 2008
sionnach "No ellipses, parabolas or hyperbolas," said Tom laconically.
Or, if you prefer the classics:
"Why are those snakes attacking that man?" wondered Tom laconically. Feb 24, 2007