short shriftnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌʃɔːt ˈʃrɪft/us/ˌʃɔːrt ˈʃrɪft/If you get or are given short shrift by someone, you are treated without sympathy and given little attention:
He'll get short shrift from me if he starts complaining about money again, now that I know how much he earns!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
- acerbic
- acidly
- backbite
- backbiting
- backhanded
- barbaric
- bilious
- cruelty
- cutthroat
- fiendish
- hard-hearted
- have a heart of stone idiom
- insensible
- malign
- pitiless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadism
- sadist
- waspish
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Idiom(s)
make short shrift of sth