laconic

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Laconic, cocky, stubborn and unapologetic, he’s a loner in a sport that requires teamwork.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

Laconic with a stiff upper lip, Link seems at first like a familiar character.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Laconic and soft-spoken, Mr. Hill spent nearly his entire government career working behind the scenes, avoiding photo ops while serving as a speechwriter and aide to secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2021

Laconic, stoic and, by this point, iconic in his sharp black suits, Wick is definitely a bad dude, but as Reeves plays him, he’s not an unfeeling monster.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019

The Questions he put to me, and the Answers I gave, were very Laconic, and I imagine that there is no Love lost betwixt us.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von