All 3 Uses of
laconic
in
Travels with Charley
- Breakfast conversation is limited to a series of laconic grunts.†
Part 2
- What I remember are the long avenues in the frost, the farms and houses braced against the winter, the flat, laconic Maine speech in crossroads stores where I stopped to buy supplies.†
Part 2
- The New England states use a terse form of instruction, a tight-lipped, laconic style sheet, wasting no words and few letters.
Part 2 *laconic = using few words
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."