Words and phrases that have a meaning related to shrift: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
short shrift, willies, pithier, wishfulness, riposte, precis, nod, antidisestablishmentarianism, haircut, tendentiousness, vagary, blouson, intellectuality, fatuousness, attitudinizing, wittedness, flummery, ineloquent, culottes, synopsis, wedgie, compendious, digression, desideratum, disquisition, plaudit, jamesian, fillip, jeebies, reprieve, harrumph, ungainliness, mockable, credence, mot juste, shorthand, boringness, runaround, pantaloon, succinctness, limpness, gist, anoraks, venn diagram, auteurism, drollness, allusion, essentialness, baulks, refutation, soundbite, distastefulness, dafter, anglophobia, inexactitude, hyperboles, nazification, vicissitude, skinniness, skirts, tautologies, pantie, perspicuity, subtext, grandiloquence, karl von clausewitz, eschewal, politer, chiasmus, sociological, pollyanna, commonplaces, explanation, guff, rhapsodise, dandyism, existentialist philosophy, dallies, cavilling, footedness, panegyric, ford madox ford, comeuppance, genuflection, fuddle, conventionalism, henri bergson, chronological, leeway, merkin, bellyful, prolixity, payoff, knee breeches, grand guignol, apologia, gagster, counterexample, windiness, noogie, shier, notice, tack, time, anything, ceremony, cut, run, lesson, note, nothing, sir, something, way, account, apology, everyone, everything, put, someone, tell
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— Adjectives for shrift: short, shorter, shortest, clean, scant, meagre, unimportant, thy, captive, popish, sort, more...
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