Crossword-Solution: LACONIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Laconic | a. | Alt. of Laconical |
| Laconic | n. | Laconism. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LACONIC | anagram | CONICAL |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LACONIC (5)
She sank back into the hansom and held her muff before her face, lowering it occasionally to utter laconic remarks about the people in the carriages they passed, interrupting Fred’s narrative in a disconcerting manner.
Even so, our acquaintance might have been no more than a hand-grip and a word--he was a laconic old fellow--had it not been for the drinking.
Van Helsing is laconic; he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well to make the exchange of horses.
She had seen little of him, except at table, when he was usually grimly laconic, though now and then she would hear him joking heavily with Sam Warden in the yard, or, with evidently humorous intent, groaning at Mamie over Eugene's health; but it had not escaped Ariel that he was, on his part, watchful of herself, and upon his guard with a wariness in which she was sometimes surprised to believe that she saw an almost haggard apprehension.
With an impulse of wanting to let her Uncle Carl know that she was not forgetting her mission, she sent him this laconic telegram: Have located Art.
Quotes with LACONIC (3)
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. "Best dungeons I ever been in," he said, chewing on a toothpick." Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he had gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
As melancholia replaced the jarring of my invention, I sat. Unable to breathe in the smog I had created, unable to stand on my betraying legs, unable to howl at the heavens over my sordid soul. In this inferno, I became paroxysmic, my self-hatred, superparamount, numbness dulling the agony of such a devilish act, An iron curtain fell upon the surrounding world, or at least what I had left of it to be owned by the laconic eclipse. All the angels fled, disowning my prayers, the…
People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they’ve woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I’ll be talking, and will be interested in what I’m saying, but then someone — I’m convinced this what happens — someone — and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person — for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 36 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).