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English to English adjective
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Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping | | source: wordnet30
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(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | | Example: a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks
source: wordnet30
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unjustly domineering | | Example: incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
source: wordnet30
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