short shrift

Even the tragic death of his son Rick, who died in a car accident in 1991, is given relatively short shrift.

Confounding matters is the short shrift that’s given to Ernst’s personal story.

Meanwhile, state and local health departments get short shrift.

Tuesday, though, tends to get short shrift — or at least it did until 2014, when the rapper iLoveMakonnen released a ubiquitous ode to clubbing on the most banal day of the week.

Climate reporter Conrad Swanson gives short shrift to the viability of residential solar in the Pacific Northwest.