Laconic: Difference between revisions

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 # (of speakers or writers) Communicating through the use of as [[few]] words as possible.
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-#* 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift:
+==== Example sentence ====
-#*: "I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long."
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+#* 2026, Wandering Wikis:
-#* 1738, Zachary Grey, ''An Attempt towards the Character of the Royal Martyr King Charles I'':
+#*: "After listening to a forty-minute explanation of the problem, she offered a laconic solution: 'Turn it off.'"
-#*: "His sense was strong and his style laconic."
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 # (Australia, sometimes proscribed, of a person) [[laidback|Laidback]]; [[casual]]; not intense.