All 3 Uses of
laconic
in
Jude the Obscure
- "Catched un, my dear?" laconically asked the girl called Anny.†
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- His idea of her was the thing of most consequence, not Arabella herself, he sometimes said laconically.†
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- Jude did not pause to remember that, in the laconic words of the historian, "insulted Nature sometimes vindicated her rights" in such circumstances.†
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Definition:
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(laconic) using few wordseditor's notes: The word laconic is named after Laconia, a region of Greece once known for using few words. For example, when ancient Athens was fighting Sparta, Athens sent a long message saying "If we beat you, we will destroy your civilization, we will kill everybody, we will spare no-one." The Spartans replied with one word: "If."