short shrift Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌʃɔːt ˈʃrɪft]
  • Us [ ˌʃɔːrt ˈʃrɪft]

Meaning of short shrift In English

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Examples of short shrift

  • Race and gender issues, for instance, get short shrift (pp. 145-7).

  • Former movement leaders, some now in government, give the remnants of their former movements and others short shrift.

  • Crucial aspects of these variegated problems are almost certainly going to get short shrift in any monograph.

  • He gives particularly short shrift to the alternative possibilities (gender, ethnicity and so on); see his comments on page 19 for example.

  • Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis gives short shrift to even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.

  • Pensions, social services, health care and social assistance get very short shrift in comparison with developments in trade, manufacturing, industrial relations and employment structure.

  • In addition, some of the most interesting recent findings and controversies are either not mentioned or are given short shrift.

  • To the bankers' cries of ruin and humiliation they gave short shrift.

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