What does ROUGHSHOD mean?
Definitions for ROUGHSHOD
ˈrʌfˈʃɒdroughshod
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Princeton's WordNet
roughshodadjective
(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective
(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"
heavy-handed, roughshodadjective
unjustly domineering
"incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
Wiktionary
roughshodadjective
having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent slipping
roughshodadjective
brutal or domineering
ChatGPT
roughshod
Being roughshod generally involves acting in a harsh, domineering, or brutally unsympathetic way towards others, often without care or regard for their feelings, rights, or welfare. It originally refers to a method of shoing horses where the shoes have projecting nails, to prevent the horse from slipping, which in turn could be aggressive or damaging. Therefore, when used in a metaphorical sense, it refers to brutality or a lack of consideration.
Webster Dictionary
Roughshodadjective
shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ROUGHSHOD in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ROUGHSHOD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of ROUGHSHOD in a Sentence
Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi:
The defendant not only ran roughshod over the dignity and the very lives of these witnesses, but he also underestimated them.
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
These are practices associated with the darkest hours of Mubarak’s rule if not worse. Egypt's security forces cannot run roughshod over detainees' rights like this.
That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.
If the ASEAN leaders feel that the United States is investing in ASEAN ... that would encourage even the weakest, the most susceptible ASEAN states to sign on with their brothers to make these statements, no one in Southeast Asia wants the Chinese to run roughshod over their smaller neighbors.
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