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adjective

laconic

using very few words

In a sentence

Six example sentences with laconic, each labelled with its topic.

  • Their coach is famously laconic, answering a five minute question about strategy with a nod and one syllable.

    Basketball

  • The exhibition captions were laconic, offering only a place and a year beneath each enormous black and white print.

    Photography

  • The judge stayed laconic through the whole hearing, then delivered a ruling that ran to ninety careful pages.

    Law

  • The western's laconic hero says maybe forty words in two hours, and every one of them lands.

    Movies

  • The error message was laconic, a single word, and the engineers spent an afternoon guessing what it meant.

    Technology

  • The chief executive's laconic reply to the merger question was two words, and the room read them for an hour.

    Business

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