laconic
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Ms. Phillips’s father was a World War II veteran and a failed businessman, the offspring of a once-proud Confederate family; he bore his humiliations with laconic stoicism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
He trudged back to his post by the campus gate before delivering a laconic response to a reporter’s question.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
But perhaps the laconic statement from Marie Sherlock of the center-left Labour Party captured the spirit of this ugly encounter in a more realistic mode.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026
Van Loon, added: "So now and then he could come across as laconic, a bit too easy going. Maybe at times some youth managers even thought of him as lazy."
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
On the margin, in the secretary’s neat hand, was the laconic epitaph “susp.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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