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 Translation for 'laconically' from English to Finnish
SYNO drily | dryly | laconically
lakonisesti {adv}laconically
niukkasanaisesti {adv}laconically
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Translation for 'laconically' from English to Finnish

laconically
lakonisesti {adv}

niukkasanaisesti {adv}
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Usage Examples English
  • Sapkowski himself in several interviews laconically expressed his negative opinion about the film: "I can answer only with a single word, an obscene, albeit a short one".
  • In Italy he married a Castilian lady but, having become suspicious of her faithfulness he spies on her and laconically says "their fate was that I found them in bed together and they died".
  • An inscription from a rock-cut church near Ivanovo laconically mentions the death of "emperor Gergi" in the year 1308/1309.
  • Greek Dorians lived in Laconia, including Sparta, and other more rural areas, and were alleged by the ancient Greeks to have spoken laconically and in a language thought harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the Attic spoken in Athens.
  • 'Make me a general', he suggested laconically and promptly was turned into a journalist.

  • One American soldier laconically commented: "We sure liberated the hell out of this place".
  • He laconically stated "my face was my fortune", alluding to what Canon Morris referred to as his "Eskimo physique".
  • Mār-bῑti-aḫḫē-idinna, md"Mār-bῑti-áḫḫē-idinna" (mdDUMU-E-PAP-AŠ), meaning "Mār-bīti" (a Babylonian god with a sanctuary at Borsippa) "has given me brothers", The "Eclectic Chronicle" refers laconically to “the Nth year of Mār-bῑti-aḫḫē-idinna” but the context is lost.
  • Hugh Farrelly interviewed in The "Irish Independent" stated laconically that "France were significantly better over 80 minutes" and "Craig Joubert did not referee evenly" and "some of the decisions were disgraceful for a game of this magnitude".
  • The Annals of Lough Ce appear to be the only contemporary reference to Donn Sléibhe, laconically reporting that "Donnsleibhe O'Gadhra mortuus est" in the year 1181.

  • His death is recorded laconically in the Irish annals, without details.
  • Wand answered laconically: "Like Beethoven".
  • According to music critic Robert Christgau, Monk's rendition of the song for his 1958 live album "Misterioso" featured "a long, laconically hilarious (and laconically, hilariously virtuosic) Johnny Griffin solo that's a landmark of saxophony".
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau described him laconically as a man "droit et adroit".
  • The genre of still life was also what attracted the artist; here are his paintings characterized by vital coloristic compositions with as well as laconically expressive objects.

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