Search Result for "short shrift":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a brief and unsympathetic rejection;
- Example: "they made short shrift of my request"
[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