Meaning of ROUGHSHOD
| Pronunciation: | | 'rufshâd
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | barbarous, brutal, cruel, domineering, fell, heavy-handed, inhumane, savage, shod, shodden, shoed, vicious |
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| | Definition: | | \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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