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Example sentences for: shrift

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To give short shrift to any of these three facets of communication is to tear apart the fabric of dialogue.
The media spun this as a setback to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr (who was seeking notes from Vince Foster's lawyer), giving short shrift to the decision's broader ramifications for old folks.
For instance, I have a very low tolerance for spelling errors and grammatical solecisms in letters of application from those soliciting work: job applicants who are too careless to correct the capitalization of california and the spelling Britian get short shrift, though I am more tolerant of those using presently for now .
The smaller one there is the Short Shrift.
Indeed, the market as perceived by Schleifer consists largely of educated adults and browsers of difficult words and word lovers of all sorts: relatively short shrift is given to high school and college students, and, mercifully, no mention at all is made of those who might have been sold on the promise of a better life--or a better after-life, or perhaps a better half-life--through the acquisition of an expanded vocabulary.