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luh-KAWN-ik
adjective
terse; quiet; of few words
1914The DamnedAnd then, while that dreadful house stood listening about us in the early hours of this chill morning upon the edge of winter, she told me, with laconic brevity, things about Mabel that I heard as from a distance.1922To The Last ManThe tone was impersonal, dry, easy, cool, laconic, and yet it could not have been more pregnant with meaning.1985ContactShe was troubled that in their haste to do a full sky survey in less than a human lifetime, to listen to all of the sky at a billion frequencies, they had abandoned both the frantic talkers and the laconic plodders.Labels: Algernon Blackwood, Carl Sagan, Zane Grey
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