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laconically Tweet Definition of laconically Like Definition of laconically on Facebook
adverb 
  1. In a terse manner, given to using few words.
    Calvin Coolidge was so laconic that when a long winded dinner companion said "I bet I can get you to say three words," he replied "you lose."
Etymology: From Laconia, the section of ancient Greece the Spartans came from, who were notoriously short of speech.

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