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UK
/ɹˈʌfʃɒd/
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[ US /ˈɹəfˈʃɑd/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəfˈʃɑd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a barbarous crime
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
brutal beatings
vicious kicks
a savage slap
cruel tortures -
unjustly domineering
a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies - (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
How To Use roughshod In A Sentence
- He's a cruel person who loves to ride roughshod over other people's feeling.
- There is no way for them to ride roughshod and defecate over our heads.
- These laws allow the security forces to continue to ride roughshod over the human rights of the people.
- As this century closes and we enter the first computational millennium, one of the great conflicts in civilization will be the attempt to reorder society, culture and government in a manner that exploits this digital bonanza yet prevents it from running roughshod over the checks and balances so delicately constructed in those palmy precomputer years. Technomania
- They accused the government of riding roughshod over parliamentary procedure.
- These managers rode roughshod over the rules that govern corporate activity and betrayed the trust of the investors.
- We know the Government will ride roughshod over the people there. Times, Sunday Times
- He said 24-hour waste wardens should be empowered to impose on the spot fines on ‘the handful’ of illegal dumpers, saying they cannot be allowed to ride roughshod over the natural environment.
- Who is going to stop the Saudis from funding insurgents and who is going to prevent the Pakistanis from helping the Taliban run roughshod through Afghanistan like they did when they effectuated the Taliban's rise in the mid-90s? Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance
- An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters.
