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    laconic


    1. Below is a parable that attempts to fill out a very laconic Biblical text:


    2. The biographical sketch of Itzig in Encyclopedia Judaica ends with the laconic note “Virtually none of Itzig’s descendents remained Jews


    3. “Perry Bass’s laconic response was that down his way in Texas, his folks always got a 10 percent discount for cash


    4. "Naw, that's Two going down," Waco Lead said in a laconic voice


    5. They appear monstrous and laconic when


    6. At first, all Winslow could get from the American Joint Operations Center in Taejon was a laconic ‘wait, out’ reply to his urgent request by radio for instructions


    7. magnificent and unexpected that she just stood there, staring up into the huge laconic


    8. The laconic voice of a technician announcing each step of the mission with impossible calm pushed Ingrid into whispering to Aldridge


    9. The first laconic cop removed


    10. 'Many,' was the laconic answer

    11. On the Saturday he did find the laconic information in the London paper he had ordered to be sent him every day that the Grand Duke of Lothen-Kunitz who was shooting in East Prussia had been joined there by that Prince--I will not reveal his august name--who had so badly wanted to marry Priscilla


    12. The administrator of the Outward Bound School, a barrel-chested Englishman about fifty years old, had a calm and almost laconic manner that was not immediately reassuring and belied the total control he exerted over his staff and students


    13. I try to beat his laconic response


    14. A slight frown and a laconic "Yes," were the answer


    15. Lockwood: and at the period of which I speak he was just the same as then; only fonder of continued solitude, and perhaps still more laconic in company


    16. twenty-three hundred gallant men," was the laconic reply


    17. After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall


    18. What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?


    19. "Yes," was the laconic reply


    20. In the morning the Germans run him through a second, more laconic spell of questioning while a typist clatters away in the corner

    21. In the tall tales told by firelight there was always a brief and laconic conversation


    22. Pestsov and his brother to this laconic, clear, almost wordless communication of the most complex ideas


    23. Like most men of action, he is laconic in speech, and sinks readily into his own thoughts, but he is always quick to answer a question or join in a conversation, talking in a queer, jerky, half-humorous fashion


    24. Frank did not know she had received a laconic letter from Will, relating that Jonas Wilkerson had paid another call at Tara and, finding her gone to Atlanta, had stormed about until Will and Ashley threw him bodily off the place


    25. Will closed by wishing her happiness, a laconic formal statement which he qualified in no way


    26. Will should have been here to meet laconic message that Gerald was dead


    27. sold, sir," was again his laconic reply


    28. Van Helsing is laconic, he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well to make the exchange of horses


    29. Lockwood: and at the period of which I speak, he was just the same as then; only fonder of continued solitude, and perhaps still more laconic in company


    30. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare in the house

    31. of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have


    32. If I spoke to him of anything, except books and matters of knowledge, he would answer me, but only from politeness, and in laconic phrases


    33. A member of the outgoing company, observing a pal of his with one of these sheets on his head, bawled out: "'Ullo, 'Arry, what'cher doing of?" to which came the laconic reply: "Selling muffins, but I've lost me blinkin' bell


    34. Michael’s,” was the laconic answer


    35. Even the aborigines have not been insensible to its charms; for in the name which they have given to the Look-Out mountain we have a laconic, but very striking description of the scenery


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    Synonyms for "laconic"

    crisp curt laconic terse little abrupt compact concise brief pithy

    "laconic" definitions

    brief and to the point; effectively cut short