roughshod, adj.
unjustly domineering
<adj.all>
heavy-handed roughshod
sample sentences
"incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies""a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
semantic pointers
similar to
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1
barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod savage vicious
sample sentences
"a barbarous crime""brutal beatings"
"cruel tortures"
"Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
"a savage slap"
"vicious kicks"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
<adj.all>
roughshod
semantic pointers
similar to