laconic

IPA: ɫɑkˈɑnɪk

Examples of "laconic" in Sentences

I must have some kind of laconic contempt of pleasure.
Plus, he wouldn't have to look up "laconic" in the dictionary.
The Spartans were dignified, austere, and of few words, "laconic" in speech.
So, it seems that we get the word 'laconic' from the Spartans, or Laconians, of ancient Greece.
He brings a new meaning to the word laconic and his choice of words is as accurate as his spicing.
Bush, on the other hand, was characterized as a laconic, likable fella who you'd want to have a beer with at a backyard cook-out.
Tanaka Gin was a slender, dark-faced man with the kind of laconic grace one often found in Japan's cinema detec - tives or samurai heroes.
This style of speaking, where much was said in few words, was so usual in the whole country of Laconia, that it is still known as the laconic style.
The screen writers did their homework in preserving many famous sayings attributed to the Spartans, who were noted in antiquity for their "laconic" style of speaking.
At its best, "Cop Diary" recalled the old New Yorker - not the famously twee New Yorker of the Shawn era, glorious as that could be, but an older old New Yorker, a kind of laconic blarney with roots deep in Joseph Mitchell.