(adjective) using or involving the use of a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
‘I agree,’ Thomsen replied laconically.
"Pleasure isn't all fun," as the title to Episode X announces laconically
It restricted itself to such a laconic proviso, since in its lecture devoted to cognition it had established that knowledge obtained prematurely
admire its laconic plainness or low-keyed sobriety
the laconic report of Joseph's response to his brothers works by starving us of information
good word that I should use more often
And he would tell you that quite frankly, raising his pentimento eyebrows and tensing his upper lip with a certain laconic pride.
this laconic, light-footed and remarkably funny book
He knows what the man is thinking, the laconic pansy, a puff out for a joy ride
George Herriman was a New Orleans Creole, and the comedy has a laconic Southern charm to its arrangement
The camera reads over her shoulder as she recites a laconic monologue:
convey his taciturn, laconic character