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单词 short shrift
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short shrift

noun [mass noun]
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.
2 archaic Little time between condemnation and execution or punishment.
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