shrift

IPA: ʃrˈɪft

noun

  • The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
  • Confession to a priest.
  • (obsolete) Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
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Examples of "shrift" in Sentences

  • I get that feeling too, shrift...
  • You're such a good writer, shrift.
  • I'm shrift, except without the ex.
  • These points are given short shrift.
  • Even the definition gets short shrift.
  • Otherwise it will receive short shrift.
  • Give in to the doc side of the force, shrift.
  • But in short shrift, that may not matter any longer.
  • Who may need to right on Stela by Hieroglyphs and 'demotic' shrift in ones
  • For now it is focusing on music, movies, online video, and, in short shrift, TV.
  • I think there's something in Shrift's or Sue's post that is getting read as one long word.
  • Then in short shrift within a year or so in the US Senate, he has decided he wants to be President.
  • To give short shrift to any of these three facets of communication is to tear apart the fabric of dialogue.
  • IIRC, in both cases she wrote opinions which supported the lower court without addressing the major issues at debate, in short shrift memos.
  • Roberts is one of the current generation of female singers, who are still getting short shrift from the inherently sexist country radio format.
  • Barberio (Moncton) and Southorn (Prince Edward Island) are a pair of Quebec Leaguers who play for clubs out in the Maritimes and get short shrift from the scouting community at large.
  • In a way, this weirdly understates the severity of institutional racism in the United States, since it implies that there were all these qualified minority jurists who were getting short shrift from the Oval Office.

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