- short shrift as a noun:
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short shrift
noun
1 short shrift
A brief and unsympathetic rejection:
— They made short shrift of my request.
synonym: summary treatment.
Moby thesaurus: cruelty, flat refusal, flintiness, hardness, harshness, heartlessness, inclemency, inexorableness, mercilessness, pitilessness, point-blank refusal, rebuff, relentlessness, remorselessness, repulse, ruthlessness, summary negative, tender mercies, uncompassionateness, unfeelingness ... show more.
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