roughshod
pronunciation
How to pronounce roughshod in British English:
UK [ˈrʌfʃɒd]
How to pronounce roughshod in American English:
US [ˈrʌfʃɑd]
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- Adjective:
- (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- unjustly domineering
Word Origin
- roughshod (adj.)
- also rough-shod, 1680s, from rough (adj.) + shod. Originally of horses shod with the nails projecting from the shoe, to prevent slipping.
Example
- 1. This would aim at a problem that does not exist , while running roughshod over existing investors .
- 2. Recent revelations suggest that many lenders rode roughshod over legal niceties to push delinquent borrowers out of their homes .
- 3. The point isn 't that private property is a bad thing , or that the state should be able to run roughshod over the rights of individual owners .
- 4. Those who bought into the nehruvian socialist dream after independence those teachers and public servants who believed in frugality , honesty , hard work and nationalism saw others riding roughshod over those values and growing in wealth , prestige and
- 5. In the past , japan 's central-government bureaucrats would have run roughshod over those who resisted them .