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comparative more laconic, superlative most laconic
Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise. quotations examples
I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
August 17, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
His sense was strong and his style laconic.
1738, Zachary Grey, An Attempt towards the Character of the Royal Martyr King Charles I