About The Word Roughshod

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Roughshod

Roughshod Meaning & Definition
Roughshod Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Roughshod?

[adj] unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
[adj] (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"
[adj] (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

Synonyms | Synonyms for Roughshod: barbarous | brutal | cruel | domineering | fell | heavy-handed | inhumane | savage | shod | shodden | shoed | vicious

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Roughshod In Webster's Dictionary

\Rough"shod\, a. Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. {To ride roughshod}, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

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