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[syn: short shrift, summary treatment]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
short shrift
n 1: a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short
shrift of my request" [syn: short shrift, summary
treatment]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "short shrift":
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