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Dictionary Results for roughshod:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Roughshod \Rough"shod\, a.
   Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod
   horse.
   [1913 Webster]

   To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the
      pain or distress it may cause others.
      [1913 Webster]

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