Laconism isn't your pastime.
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Laconism
Synonyms for "laconism" (17 found)
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Noun(3 words)
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11 translations across 7 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- լակոնիզմ noun (brevity in expression)
Finnish
2 entries- lakonisuus noun (brevity in expression)
- toteamus noun (brief expression)
French
1 entries- laconisme noun (brevity in expression)
Italian
2 entries- laconicismo noun (brevity in expression)
- laconismo noun (brevity in expression)
Macedonian
1 entries- лакони́зам noun (brevity in expression)
Romanian
1 entries- laconism noun (brevity in expression)
Spanish
3 entries- laconismo noun (brevity in expression)
- laconismo noun (brief expression)
- pauciloquio noun (brevity in expression)
Sample sentences
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“Well, where have you been?” he said to her with offhand laconism.
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[…] Joe Montana is finally calling it quits. A retirement party in San Francisco and a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, are planned for this week, and his agents are shopping him around to the networks as a broadcaster, even though Montana has a reputation for laconism.
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The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters, which, like the Laconism on the wall, are not to be made out but by a hint or key from that SPIRIT which indited them.
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