Found 2 items, similar to Roughshod.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: roughshod
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,
savage,
vicious]
3: unjustly domineering;
“incensed at the government's
heavy-handed economic economic policies”;
“a manager who
rode roughshod over all opposition” [syn:
heavy-handed]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Roughshod
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]