All 4 Uses of
laconic
in
The Man of the Forest
- He seemed so laconic, so easy, so nice, that he could not have been taken seriously, yet Helen's quick perceptions registered a daring, a something that was both sudden and inevitable in him.†
Chpt 4 *
- Bo roused to a very friendly and laconic little speech, much overdone.†
Chpt 18
- "Boss, you play like a cow stuck in the mud," remarked Moze, laconically.†
Chpt 22
- The pioneers and ranchers of the frontier would never have made the West habitable had it not been for these wild cowboys, these hard-drinking, hard-riding, hard-living rangers of the barrens, these easy, cool, laconic, simple young men whose blood was tinged with fire and who possessed a magnificent and terrible effrontery toward danger and death.†
Chpt 25
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."