What's the difference between laconic and succinct?

Laconic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Laconical
  • (n.) Laconism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
  • (2) Just over two years later, Harvey, a 29-year-old with a laconic line in humour, can look back on it and joke about it.
  • (3) Miles, who spoke laconically and without passion, recommended that the tubes remain in place for several weeks at a stretch to minimize risk to a detainee.
  • (4) The author has revealed a classification based on systematization of most frequently observed pathology, that allows a laconic functional and topical diagnosis and provides phlebological patients with individualized treatment.
  • (5) As Clarke Reed, the former chair of the Mississippi Republican party who played a key role in the last contested convention in 1976, told the Guardian far more laconically, a contested convention this year is “likely to lead to all kinds of games being played”.
  • (6) Wittgenstein's reply is said to have been the laconic but absurdly cheerful: "Great!
  • (7) Spoofing the popular media that lamented the loss of a "great statesman", the weekly's headline laconically read: "Tragic ball at Colombey, one dead".
  • (8) You must have known,” Price says – laconic, nasal, one leg casually hitched up on the bench, endlessly jingling coins in his pocket – “that to give a senior public figure an arrest warning could lead to a complaint direct to the commissioner’s office.” Do you not see how important Mr Mitchell is?
  • (9) Kean dismissed the gesture with a laconic: "I didn't notice it."
  • (10) "We've all read the same spy novels," one said laconically.
  • (11) Mackenzie flew to Brazil this week as Ferreira came under increasing fire from local authorities, residents and media for what many saw as a laconic response to one of the South American nation’s worst mining disasters.
  • (12) Greater dementia severity in the SRD subjects was associated with laconic speech that was syntactially less complex.
  • (13) Probably not a good idea,” says a suitably laconic Chris Pratt in the trailer, which probably tells you everything you need to know here.
  • (14) Downing Street clarified the statement by laconically pointing out that "it's hardly surprising that UKTI DSO are seeking to promote defence exports – that's their job".
  • (15) At one point, Focus revealedon Monday, he had asked laconically why the police couldn't have waited until he was dead.
  • (16) Don’t expect a wild change of tack from Cohen, who turns 80 the day before the album comes out – Popular Problems is as laconic and gravelly as ever.
  • (17) From the start he was academically brilliant, in his off-beat and laconically concise way.
  • (18) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
  • (19) Official coverage in Russia of Novodvorskaya's passing has been muted, and President Putin's office issued a laconic statement .
  • (20) The problem with Dave is he’s so laconic, which I discovered recently is a posh person’s way of calling someone bone idle.

Succinct


Definition:

  • (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
  • (a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of this article is to review many of these points in a succinct and practical fashion for the nurse who may be considering such a move.
  • (2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
  • (3) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
  • (4) A number of applications of the various methods are included, with examples of succinct summary displays.
  • (5) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (6) Last Wednesday, at a parliamentary round table, paediatrician Dr Ingrid Wolfe, one of the co-authors of Why Children Die published in May, gave a succinct and shocking analysis of why the UK has the second worst mortality rate for children in western Europe.
  • (7) His appraisal of Argentina’s current squad is succinct: “Alejandro [Sabella]has shown he isn’t closed in on a single idea of how to play, having tried many variables and combinations,” he says.
  • (8) Human fibroblast interferon, obtained by chromatography on concanavalin A-agarose, was stable for at least a month in 30--50 per cent ethylene glycol at 4 degrees, --20 degrees, and --70 degrees C. The succinct point of the present finding is that human fibroblast interferon may be stabilized by ethylene glycol alone without the addition of bovine serum albumin and 'back-contamination' of the interferon preparation.
  • (9) Perhaps the most significant problem in prosthodontics today is the need to succinctly define the parameters of prosthodontic practice in order to provide guidelines for assuring that such practices are limited to the defined specialty.
  • (10) Prospects for preventing and treating AIDS have been succinctly summarized.
  • (11) But his Olympic monument seems to lack the pith and succinctness with which he usually engages people.
  • (12) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.
  • (13) As Lauren Laverne, the BBC6 Music DJ, succinctly put it, it was Seeger's destiny to be "loved and hated by precisely the right people".
  • (14) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
  • (15) We consider this tonic pain model indeed offers a succinct empirical paradigm to study human pain responsivity in general.
  • (16) Cameron's reply was succinct: "She may be many things, but she's not a Cherie."
  • (17) In the TE ORFs there are no indications of selection for the codons prevalent in the other D. melanogaster genes, but rather codon usage can be succinctly summarized in terms of the base composition at silent sites.
  • (18) People magazine succinctly summed up Sade's enduring appeal as "the voice of comfort to the wounded heart".
  • (19) Bill Black, the wise sage of the sport who coached Team GB's men in Sydney, puts it succinctly.
  • (20) Peter Scheer, director of the First Amendment coalition, explained the consequences of the Gawker case succinctly: Say five years from now, if Trump loses and people are writing critical postmortems, will they have to worry that Trump will turn around and sue them?