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Adjective roughshod has 3 senses
- roughshod - (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
Antonyms: unshod, unshoed (indirect, via shod)
- barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious - (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"
Antonym: humane (indirect, via inhumane)
- heavy-handed, roughshod - unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
Antonym: submissive (indirect, via domineering)
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