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laconic

/luh-kon-ik/US // ləˈkɒn ɪk //UK // (ləˈkɒnɪk) //

沉默寡言,口齿不清,沉默寡言的,口齿不清的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.

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Examples

  • It’s a laconic sort of instruction familiar to anyone who has snooped through old community cookbooks or taken a mild interest in cookbook history.

  • She is laconic, matter of fact, and frequently speaks in “life is a journey”-type metaphors and aphorisms—all part of her charm.

  • J.J. Cale, 74 No one has ever pared a song down to its essentials better than this laconic Oklahoma composer and performer.

  • In an unfinished high-rise in the middle of Caracas, a laconic, cynical "doctor" operates on his new patient.

  • He pulls the reader in with his unpretentious, laconic style, and with his refusal to shy away from acknowledging his own flaws.

  • My take is somewhat more laconic: this just doesn't matter much.

  • Ramsey was laconic in response to inquiries upon this subject.

  • When I heard this laconic declaration of love, I began to laugh immoderately, tore myself from her grasp, and rushed away.

  • Yet I had spoken with quite an unwonted degree of warmth, when contrasted with my ordinary laconic way of expressing myself.

  • More than once she had left him with a laconic "Bye-bye," and he had spent a miserable evening before an unsympathetic fire.

  • "Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.