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Noun short shrift has 1 sense

• short shrift(n = noun.communication) summary treatment - a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"
is a kind of rejection

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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

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