Definition of "laconically" []

• In a terse manner, given to using few words. (adverb)

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• "Brooks replied, "laconically" that right before Christmas of that year, his mother's house in Chesterfield was burned to the ground."
• ""She's made of it," laconically, "and I aims to stay by her.""
• "“After you wit’ heem,” a bird called laconically, squeezing past going the other way and tutting in annoyance when they shoved her aside."