Synonyms for roughshod
ˈrʌfˈʃɒdroughshod

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1. roughshodadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   savage, fell, heavy-handed, vicious, cruel, barbarous, brutal

   Antonyms:
   humane, unshoed, unshod, submissive

2. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective

   (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"

   Synonyms:
   wild, uncivilized, fierce, savage, deplorable, reprehensible, fell, beastly, unrelenting, venomous, criminal, brute(a), condemnable, barbaric, evil, feral, cruel, poisonous, barbarous, vicious, furious, ferocious, barbarian, heavy-handed, brutish, bestial, brutal, ferine, uncivilised

   Antonyms:
   humane, unshod, unshoed, submissive

3. heavy-handed, roughshodadjective

   unjustly domineering

   "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

   Synonyms:
   left-handed, savage, heavy-handed, bumbling, butterfingered, handless, barbarous, fell, cruel, vicious, ham-handed, ham-fisted, bungling, brutal

   Antonyms:
   unshoed, unshod, humane, submissive

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1. Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi:

   The defendant not only ran roughshod over the dignity and the very lives of these witnesses, but he also underestimated them.

2. Mohamed Elmessiry:

   These are practices associated with the darkest hours of Mubarak’s rule if not worse. Egypt's security forces cannot run roughshod over detainees' rights like this.

3. Josh Billings:

   The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

4. Ernest Bower:

   If the ASEAN leaders feel that the United States is investing in ASEAN ... that would encourage even the weakest, the most susceptible ASEAN states to sign on with their brothers to make these statements, no one in Southeast Asia wants the Chinese to run roughshod over their smaller neighbors.

5. Don Shafer:

   We ended up having to terminate Vester Lee Flanagan contract and let Vester Lee Flanagan go for bizarre behavior and fighting with other employees, vester Lee Flanagan threatened to punch people out, and Vester Lee Flanagan was kind of running fairly roughshod over other people in the newsroom.