shrift's Usage Examples:

Cambridge made short shrift of them on the outside of bends.

However, they received short shrift from the House of Lords.

By contrast, the female actors seem to get short shrift, with few good lines to rise up to.

A Chinese attempt to enter the US energy sector was given very short shrift by the US Congress only a couple of months ago.

Moreover, socio-economic and class issues tend to get short shrift, reflecting a scarcity of research in this field.

But why do the tenors always get such short shrift?

The Caps had short shrift, and the joint note which the Russian, Prussian and Danish ministers presented to the estates protesting, in menacing terms, against any " reprisals " on the part of the triumphant faction, only hastened the fall of the government.

Such thieves as refused to work with him received short shrift.

Thus the " lazy yawning drone," as Shakespeare puts it, has a short shrift when his usefulness to the community is ended.

SHROVE TUESDAY, the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, so called as the day on which "shrift" or confession was made in preparation for the great fast.

Synonyms:

confession,