About The Word Roughshod
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Roughshod
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Roughshod: See Also | 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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