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Roughshod

adjective

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

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious. "Brutal beatings" , "Cruel tortures" , "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks" , "A savage slap" , "Vicious kicks"

Unjustly domineering. Synonym: heavy-handed. "A manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

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"Roughshod" Quotes from Famous Books

... great, the strong, the conquering god—Love that subdues a world, and rides roughshod over principle, virtue, tradidion, over home, kindred, and religion—what cares he for the easy conquest of the pathetic being, ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... Prussia a greater potentate than Napoleon or Alexander, was his all-absorbing purpose. It mattered not what stood in his way, whether people, Diet, or nation; all must bend to his mighty will. Germany must hold the deciding voice in the Areopagus of the world. He rode roughshod over everybody and everything that stood in his way, ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... engagement she seems to have lost her fear of Stephen Drake. She has been all unexpressed sympathy. And Drake? There's the danger, I am sure—a danger not of the usual kind. Had he been unscrupulous he might have ridden roughshod over Clarice long before now. But he's too scrupulous for that. I think that he misses greatness as we understand it, through excess of scruple. But there's that saying of his about a debt incurred to Clarice by the man caring for her. Well, convince him that he can pay it by any sacrifice; ...

— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason

... many good women whose minds are blocked off in conventional squares, she is very loyal and sympathetic—and very trying. The essence of her temperament is ineffectuality. My cousin and I were a wild, unmanageable pair who rode roughshod over protest. That Aunt Agatha was not in fault may be proved by my cousin. She is a fine, ...

— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

... races of Aryan descent exhibit the same characteristics. They split into endogamous castes, each of which pursues its own interests at the expense of other castes. From the dawn of history we find kings, nobles and priests riding roughshod over a mass of herdsmen, cultivators and artisans. These ruling castes are imbued with pride of colour. The Aryans' fair complexions differentiated them from the coal-black aborigines; varna in Sanskrit means "caste" and "colour". Their aesthetic instinct finds expression ...

— Tales of Bengal • S. B. Banerjea

... what 'the Bull' wants; he wants a fellow who's not afraid of him to stand up against him. Fernhurst has been run by him long enough. He is a splendid fellow; and when he's sane I almost love him. But he has become an absolute tyrant. Thank God, he can't ride roughshod over my brother." ...

— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh

... bit. It can't be as hot at Ranjitgarh as it is here. But I put you on your honour to come back. No one must lead the Habshiabadis into Agpur but you. You will find me relegated to my original obscurity by that time, with a duly appointed Brigadier—a nya jawan[2]—riding roughshod over my tenderest feelings, but you can still swagger as the officer accompanying the forces of ...

— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier

Words linked to "Roughshod" : domineering, shodden, shoed, inhumane, shod