roughshod

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
• Similar to:
shod, shodden, shoed
2. unjustly domineering
- incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
- a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
• Syn:
heavy-handed
• Similar to:
domineering
3. (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, savage, vicious
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness (for: vicious), savage (for: savage), savageness (for: savage), cruelness (for: cruel), brutality (for: brutal), barbarousness (for: barbarous)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  heavy-handed, barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious