Hypertext Webster Gateway: "roughshod"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roughshod \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
roughshod
adj 1: (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to
prevent slipping
2: (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" [syn: {barbarous},
{brutal}, {cruel}, {fell}, {savage}, {vicious}]
3: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's
heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who
rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: {heavy-handed}]
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