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Meaning of roughshod


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {roughshod}, {savage}, {vicious}]
      3: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-
         handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over
         all opposition" [syn: {heavy-handed}, {roughshod}]


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