roughshod
ruhf shod
- s (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
- s (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks - s unjustly domineering
a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
- His roughshod treatment of many in the military fairly or unfairly had many officers, especially in the Army, setting their bayonets into place by the middle of 2001.
- Unlike the Speaker of the House, the leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, is constrained by parliamentary rules from running roughshod over his own charges, not to mention the .
- How it continues to hemorrhage experienced field officers, how the place is demoralized, how the Pentagon still rides roughshod over it.