roughshod

Adjective

• unjustly domineering
  • incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
    
  • a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
    

• (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
    

• (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  heavy-handed , barbarous , brutal , cruel , fell , savage , vicious