Short-shrift Synonyms

A brief and unsympathetic rejection
Synonyms:
  1. kick-in-the-teeth
  2. small end of the deal
  3. summary treatment
  4. small portion
  5. tender mercies
  6. quick work
  7. pitilessness
  8. no quarter
  9. no pity

Short-shrift Sentence Examples

  • Such thieves as refused to work with him received short shrift.

  • A Chinese attempt to enter the US energy sector was given very short shrift by the US Congress only a couple of months ago.

  • Thus the " lazy yawning drone," as Shakespeare puts it, has a short shrift when his usefulness to the community is ended.

  • However, they received short shrift from the House of Lords.

  • Cambridge made short shrift of them on the outside of bends.

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