shrift

short shrift rapid and unsympathetic dismissal; curt treatment.

☞ Shrift literally denotes penance imposed after confession to a priest, and historically short shrift referred to a very brief allowance of time between condemnation and execution or other punishment.

2002Art in America Edward Strickland's Minimalism: Origins, published in 1993, gives surprisingly short shrift to the Minimalists of the 1960s.