1Rapid and unsympathetic dismissal; curt treatment.
‘the judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech’
‘A few thought I gave short shrift to the value of biodiversity in medicine.’
‘Woodward also gave short shrift to the rumoured spat between Larder and O'Sullivan.’
‘Each character has his or her own painful story, and none are given short shrift in this treatment.’
‘Foundation hospitals were given short shrift.’
‘In 1986, crime victims got short shrift from the justice system.’
‘Such behaviour can only receive short shrift to the fruit of democracy Zambians have only just started enjoying.’
‘That way, the neighbor won't be expecting an endorsement, and the opponent won't fear he will be given short shrift.’
‘Antiwar sentiments, however vague, were given short shrift.’
‘But are they being too ‘liberal’ in their attitudes - to the extent of giving short shrift to their mother tongue?’
‘Hansen said his people are still given short shrift.’
‘He does not give short shrift to the slavery issue.’
‘In general, philosophy, history, and policy got short shrift in teacher-preparation courses, the paper said.’
‘But Leonard, who travelled to New Zealand in 1993 and South Africa four years ago, gives the men in suits short shrift.’
‘Are arguments about the First Amendment getting short shrift?’
‘Such speculation gets short shrift from Michael Henderson.’
‘Will the networks continue to give short shrift to the international stories so prized by the globetrotting correspondent?’
‘But the downside is sometimes we give short shrift to everything else.’
‘But these got short shrift in Luxembourg last Wednesday.’
‘Quite a few of them, especially the officers who represented the military elite, hated the Bolsheviks because they saw them as giving short shrift to the state.’
2archaic Little time between condemnation and execution or punishment.
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