roughshod

/'rʌfʃɔd/
Adjective
  1. unjustly domineering
    • incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
    • a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
  2. (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
  3. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

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The manager rode roughshod over the team's suggestions.