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roughshod

Adjective, Adverb

rough=shod

WORDNET DICTIONARY

roughshod(s = adj.all) Array - (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping; Array
roughshod(s = adj.all) barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious - (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
roughshod(s = adj.all) heavy-handed - unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

roughshod, a.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. [1913 Webster]

To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

roughshod, adj. (of a horse) having shoes with nail-heads projecting to prevent slipping.

Idiom

ride roughshod over treat inconsiderately or arrogantly.

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