Definition of roughshod
English to English adjective - Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
source: Webster 1913 adjective satellite - (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
source: WordNet 3.0 - (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.
source: WordNet 3.0 - unjustly domineering
Incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies.
A manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.
source: WordNet 3.0
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