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Synonyms for roughshod in English

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roughshod:
- heavy-handed; roughshod; cruel; vicious; savage; fell; brutal; barbarous

English

Detailed Synonyms for roughshod in English

roughshod:

roughshod adj

roughshod

– unjustly domineering ¹
heavy-handed; roughshod
– unjustly domineering ¹
- heavy-handed adj
  - incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies¹
- roughshod adj
  - a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition¹
roughshod

– (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering ¹
cruel; vicious; savage; fell; brutal; roughshod; barbarous
– (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering ¹
- cruel adj
  - cruel tortures¹
- vicious adj
  - vicious kicks¹
- savage adj
  - a savage slap¹
- fell adj
- brutal adj
  - brutal beatings¹
- roughshod adj
  - Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks¹
- barbarous adj
  - a barbarous crime¹
roughshod

– (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping ¹
roughshod
– (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping ¹
- roughshod adj

Alternate Synonyms for "roughshod":

shod; shodden; shoed
barbarous; brutal; cruel; fell; savage; vicious; inhumane
heavy-handed; domineering

Related Definitions for "roughshod":

unjustly domineering¹
- a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition¹
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering¹
- Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks¹
(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping¹

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