short shrift
Example Sentences
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JAC’s role manufacturing the Maextro gets short shrift in the luxury car’s marketing, just as Apple doesn’t tell customers who manufactures its devices.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
Executives hoping for a sympathetic hearing for underwhelming numbers this earnings season are likely to receive short shrift and might have to brace for a stock tumble.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
The result was “a sea change in the economics of the malpractice plaintiffs’ bar,” Rand found, with cases where the judgment cap would cut too deeply into attorney fees getting short shrift.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
The EU were given short shrift by major producers.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
Overtures by anyone friendly to these groups—or, God forbid, members of one of them—received short shrift in the poor white sections of Durham.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
