'short shrift' definitions:
Definition of 'short shrift'
(from WordNet)
noun
A brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request" [syn: short shrift, summary treatment]
Synonyms of 'short shrift'
From: 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,
- unforgivingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness