Examples of 'roughshod' in a sentence
Meaning of "roughshod"
Roughshod (noun): An old term describing a type of horseshoe that has projecting nails or points for additional grip. In modern English, 'roughshod' is more commonly used in the idiom 'to run roughshod over' someone, meaning to treat them harshly or oppressively
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- Of a horse: having hooves shod with horseshoes that have calks or projecting parts to prevent slipping.
- Brutal or domineering.
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We ride roughshod over the wishes of voters.
You are letting billy chambers run roughshod.
Then he ran roughshod overthe car owner.
Is the staff always ridden over roughshod.
Been riding roughshod over the ports for years.
I believe he is not going to ride roughshod on the states.
We will ride roughshod over healthy eating habits.
I sold it to a man nobody can ride roughshod over.
Then he ran roughshod over the car owner.
These men think they can ride roughshod over me.
My sisters ran roughshod over my mom for decades.
Roughshod literally means having rough shoes especially referring to a horse.
Do not ride roughshod over my authority.
Hiding behind his informant status to run roughshod over my city.
You have run roughshod over this office.
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I have been riding roughshod.
Their boss runs roughshod over their values.
There are ways of achieving this that do not involve riding roughshod over subsidiarity.
It tends to ride roughshod over the rights of minorities.
He says he respects reconciliation and then runs roughshod over indigenous rights.
That rides roughshod over us to be the slave of a beautiful tyrant.
They are proposing to ride roughshod over our prerogative.
They run roughshod over this town with total impunity.
Blacks had to ride roughshod over.
Are riding roughshod over those who can least afford it.
I establish order and ride roughshod over offenders.
She runs roughshod over all the decisions we have already made.
When you come a riding roughshod over my land.
Riding roughshod over one of the basic principles of the administrative policing.
Guys have been running roughshod over you for years.
He rode roughshod over them trying to make them over in his own image.
I am not going to let them run roughshod over our town.
Let us not run roughshod over our democratic institutions.
I am especially jarred by the idea of its riding roughshod over local governments.
Running roughshod is our job.
You can not let these kids ride roughshod all over you.
Masters riding roughshod thinking they can get away with it.
I refuse to stand by while some bully rides roughshod over the little people.
You have run roughshod over this office for twenty years.
This could allow a majority of agencies to run roughshod over those who object.
Running roughshod is ourjob.
It sounds like another story about an extractive corporation riding roughshod over local lives.
But those kids ran roughshod all over my property.
But Ichabod was confident he would soon ride roughshod.
So many writers ride roughshod over their source material.
The democratic decision of the Irish people can not be ignored or ridden roughshod over.
So many writers riding roughshod over their source material.
Ride roughshod over anything or anybody to get what I wanted.
You wanted to ride roughshod over all our rules.
The hidden and cynical European imperialism contrasts glaringly with its roughshod American counterpart.
