Laconically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a terse manner, given to using few words.

    "The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically)."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a dry laconic manner wordnet

Synonyms

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brieflycurtlydrilydrylypointedlyshortly

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"The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically)."

Etymology

From laconic + -ally; from Laconia, the section of Ancient Greece that the Spartans came from; they were notoriously short of speech.

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