Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
laconic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
laconic , a.
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- adjective Archaic form of
laconic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I expressed my thoughts thus ,trying to be laconical.
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He was a laconical man and not prone to idle conversation.
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To say, then, that it is JUST that barbarism should subserve civilization is a laconical axiom, which decides a plain question of right and wrong.
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It was laconical enough, for it had but one word, and that was
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"Whizz-bangs," was the corporal's laconical remark.
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I was therefore able to rejoice Liszt with the following laconical protest which I sent him from my Swiss resort: 'Stahr is wrong, and Lohengrin is right.'
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In his habitual laconical way he counselled me to reserve all my savings for our journey, and to settle with my creditors when my Parisian successes had provided the necessary means.
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A novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-teller; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl.
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A novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-teller; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl.
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At the second visit of Gryphus, Cornelius, contrary to all his former habits, asked the old jailer, with the most winning voice, about her health; but Gryphus contented himself with giving the laconical answer, --
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