laconically

English

From laconic +‎ -ally; from Laconia, the section of Ancient Greece that the Spartans came from; they were notoriously short of speech.

laconically (comparative more laconically, superlative most laconically)

In a terse manner, given to using few words.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:
  The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).
- 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 21:07 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse...‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 December 2022:
  An officer makes his way through the maelstrom to report a serious fire in one of the turrets. Rozhestvensky laconically orders him to try and put it out, as there isn't much he can do from inside the conning tower.

in a terse manner