How to use "laconic" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "laconic" in popular movie and book plots

  • There he meets the laconic Serge, a man in his fifties who is returning alone to Paris in his red Porsche 911 and agrees to take Paul.  - Le vent de la nuit
  • Marty also finds his heart moved my Missy, a genetically engineered sheep who refuses to associate with the rest of the flock and enjoys "music, porridge and laconic stories".  - One Day as a Tiger
  • Forsaken by the local townspeople, and advised by the sheriff to leave town, Lillian decides instead to take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, and enlists the help of ex-logger Lester (Anthony Hopkins) and his laconic young sidekick Nate (Alexander Ludwig)—the only two men in town brave enough, or crazy enough, to go with her, and go up against Blackway.  - Blackway
  • In 1934, in a little village on a canal in Burgundy, a laconic young stranger called Jean is walking along the road when an older woman in black gets off a bus with a heavy load.  - The Widow Couderc
  • The survey ship Thunderer sets out to follow up on reports of new inhabitable planets filed by a distinctly laconic advance scout.  - The Waitabits
  • Llewyn rides with two musicians driving to Chicago: the laconic beat poet Johnny Five (Garrett Hedlund) and the odious jazz musician Roland Turner (John Goodman).  - Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Led by laconic investigator Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), the team has included former Secret Service agent Caitlin Todd (Sasha Alexander); Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), a senior NCIS field agent;IT.  - NCIS (TV series)
  • The laconic Cole makes his original plan for hunting down the four by himself clear by turning down the offer of Webb's handcuffs by saying "I won't be needing any".  - Posse from Hell
  • While Goneril and Regan please the old king with their exaggerations, Cordelia enraged him with her famous laconic “I love thee, according to my bond.  - Fool (novel)
  • Haruhi later recruits three additional members: the laconic bibliophile Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the extremely friendly transfer student Itsuki Koizumi.  - Haruhi Suzumiya
  • Six years later, Brown is a medical student at Minto House Hospital and has maintained a friendship with Rab and James, the laconic carrier.  - Rab and his Friends
  • Max finally finds the laconic Chris, witnessing him free a man from a rigged trial, first by using his wits, then with the famed hair-trigger skill as a gunfighter.  - Guns of the Magnificent Seven
  • The hijackers are led by Ryder, a former mercenary; Longman, a disgruntled former motorman; Welcome, a violent former Mafia thug; and Steever, a powerful, laconic brute.  - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (novel)
  • Grady is a laconic "Romeo" who drives their 1955 Chevrolet stock car (#54, named Traveller after General Lee's horse).  - Moonrunners
  • Investigating Lockhart's hometown in Harney County, Florida, Decker looks up an old newspaper friend, a laconic reporter named Ott Pickney.  - Double Whammy (novel)
  • The race is covered on national TV by a news team headed by the boisterous and comical Junior Bruce, seductive matron Grace Pander, and laconic commentator Harold (a parody of Howard Cosell).  - Death Race 2000
  • His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid".  - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming, some time after the Civil War.  - Shane (film)

Example sentences for "laconic" in interesting articles

Meaning of "laconic" in English

  • brief and to the point; effectively cut short
    Examples
    - a response so curt as to be almost rude
    - the laconic reply; `yes'
    - short and terse and easy to understand

Meaning of "laconic" in Hindi

  • संक्षिप्त ( Sankshipt)
  • छोटा ( Chhota, chhotaa)
  • मुख्तसर ( Mukhtasar)
  • लघु ( Laghu)
  • अल्प शब्दक ( Alp shabdak)

Synonyms of "laconic"

  • curt
  • crisp
  • terse

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