roughshod

• roughshod

roughshod

Adjective

(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

Synonyms:

• roughshod

Adjective

(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"

Synonyms:

• barbarous
• brutal
• cruel
• fell
• roughshod
• savage
• vicious

Adjective

unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

Synonyms:

• heavy-handed
• roughshod