short shrift

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

short shrift
    n 1: a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short
         shrift of my request" [syn: {short shrift}, {summary
         treatment}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "short shrift":
      cruelty, flat refusal, flintiness, hardness, harshness,
      heartlessness, inclemency, inexorableness, mercilessness,
      pitilessness, point-blank refusal, rebuff, relentlessness,
      remorselessness, repulse, ruthlessness, summary negative,
      tender mercies, uncompassionateness, unfeelingness,
      unforgivingness, unmercifulness, unremorsefulness,
      unsympatheticness, unyieldingness