roughshod
- (s) (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
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(s) (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
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(s) unjustly domineering
- incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
- a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition