Adjective : a monosyllabic reply.    From Dictionary.com. 

Speaking monosyllabically is not going to get you very far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

The other grunted monosyllabically, and bit on a carrot-like root.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON] Reference

Inside was a man whom I could hardly see, and McCord introduced us monosyllabically, using aliases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will]

No smile softened her face, no ray had lighted it; she only intelligently observed, and monosyllabically answered him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

The wounded man was finally induced to answer monosyllabically the questions put to him, but he did so with surly impatience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Gold] Reference

And if you answer monosyllabically to that question, you may be asked, in a warm and attentive voice, whether you plan on committing suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ways of Seeing] Reference

My head feels like its going to explode as I sit through the two important meetings I had yesterday, monosyllabically trying to make contributions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony."] Reference

He answered monosyllabically his mother's questions, patted the dog's beetling forehead and thought of nothing at all for practically forty-five minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn About Eleanor] Reference

'He has acquired,' said the Bibliotaph, 'both a pathetic and a prophetic interest in that place which begins as heaven does, but stops off monosyllabically.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

During a recent lecture in London the younger Gaddafi responded monosyllabically to a question about Megrahi, focusing instead on the "new" Libya and opportunities it presented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lockerbie bomber's release has strengthened ties with UK, says Libya] Reference

He hits five bars in a single day, drinking his way through his declining years, monosyllabically grunting his way through conversations with a loquacious bartender Gyula Pauer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damnation] Reference

By the time we were nearing Antiniotissa everyone was feeling better, with the exception of Theodore, who still kept as close to the side of the boat as possible, staring hard at his boots and answering questions monosyllabically.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Family and Other Animals]

We return to suite, where A sits on the sofa beside me but does not acknowledge my continued existence and responds monosyllabically to my attempts at chit-chat, preferring to talk in rapid French to the attending record company executive.    From Wordnik.com.  [These two...] Reference

Of course the drama escalated when this nondescript figure, responding almost monosyllabically to Simon Cowell's grilling about why a 47-year-old had never made any professional headway, said she aspired to be a singer in the image of Evita originator Elaine Paige.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Russnow: Susan Boyle's Phenomenal Ride Just Won't Stop: And Yes, It Mattered That She Could Sing] Reference

After I'd torn apart the record shelves, scattered picture sleeves across my kitchen, unearthed 45s from under the bed, and otherwise generally destroyed my apartment for the purpose of a decent blog post, I settled on a small stack of 45s by a monosyllabically wonderful late 80s band from NYC called GO!.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Was Easy, It Was Cheap] Reference

Asked if, 10 years ago, he could have imagined a Democratic president like Clinton -- one signing repeal of the 60-year-old federal entitlement to support for the poor; fixated on balancing the budget; proposing to do so by cutting discretionary domestic spending by one third -- Wellstone answers softly and monosyllabically: "" No. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Unitarianism] Reference

I wrote back as monosyllabically, saying No, I had not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Campus] Reference

Unable to do so, he sat mute, replying to questions monosyllabically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

The major agreed monosyllabically or with silent nods for the sake of peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of Blue Lake Ranch] Reference

The Chicago-bred outfit recorded "Head," "Goat" and other monosyllabically titled noise-rock classics before disbanding in relative.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Emmylou Harris in Boulder] Reference

The dark-eyed girl turned a fleeting glance upon her, so fleeting that it seemed as if she had never altered her position, and replied monosyllabically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story] Reference

If I were in that position I would probably be answering monosyllabically, unable to elaborate on anything, lost in a dream about fresh pasta or cheeseburgers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tripwire] Reference

Somewhere behind her Daddy John and Courant made a noise with skillets and picket pins and spoke a little, a sentence mutteringly dropped and monosyllabically answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Trail] Reference

He replied monosyllabically to her observations concerning matters usually of interest to him, but he evidently had no words to spare, and after a little she gave over all effort to draw him out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Red Pepper] Reference

Mrs. Sloggett put him through a perfect catechism on Jeph and his fortunes, which he answered at first almost monosyllabically, though afterwards he could speak a little more freely, when the questions did not go quite beyond his knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Storm] Reference

It was seldom that she found herself alone with him in the morning, and, on these occasions, if she was silent in the hope of his speaking first, not a syllable would he utter; if she spoke to him indirectly, he assented monosyllabically; if she questioned him, his answers were brief, constrained, and evasive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightmare Abbey] Reference

So, to summarize, if Netherland hadn't been so damned flowery, hadn't gone spiraling off with sentences plieing about in the clouds and fields all the time; had drawn a character less interested in such silly items as love and fatherhood and security, more interested in self destruction, nullity and meaninglessness … and finished off with a suicide, described monosyllabically, and free of adjectives, then perhaps the book would have signified something?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

So, to summarize, if Netherland hadn’t been so damned flowery, hadn’t gone spiraling off with sentences plieing about in the clouds and fields all the time; had drawn a character less interested in such silly items as love and fatherhood and security, more interested in self destruction, nullity and meaninglessness … and finished off with a suicide, described monosyllabically, and free of adjectives, then perhaps the book would have signified something?.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 January 27 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

Fermi replied monosyllabically once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [DBTL 8A: The Fire Next Time] Reference

Who answered, usually monosyllabically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euphony.] Reference

"Caged," he whispered monosyllabically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Terror] Reference