形容詞 roughshod:

1. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
2. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
   同義詞：barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious
3. unjustly domineering
   同義詞：heavy-handed

1. He rode roughshod over all our arguments.
   他對我們的論據全然不理。
2. The city officials rode roughshod over the people who did not want their homes torn down for a new school.
   市府官員對那些不愿為修建新學校而毀家園的人們，不抱一點同情心。
3. Glasser, who rode roughshod over the FBI, prosecutors, defense lawyers and the press during the Gotti trial, made a series of telephone calls to Sessions demanding that the sources for The News story be found, sources said.
   據悉，在審理戈蒂時，格拉瑟對聯邦調查局、檢察官、被告律師以及媒體毫不客氣。他打了好幾通電話給塞申斯，要他必須查出《每日新聞》的消息來源。
4. He rode roughshod over all opposition to his ideas.
   他恣意壓制所有與他相左的意見。

rough.shod

adj.（形容詞）
Shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points to prevent slipping.
馬掌上釘有馬蹄鐵的：穿有具突出的釘狀物或釘子以防滑下的馬蹄鐵的
Marked by brutal force:
殘暴的，殘忍的，無情的：
例句：
Stalin`s roughshod treatment of the kulaks.
斯大林對富農采取的殘暴政策

<習慣用語>ride roughshod over
To treat with brutal force:
殘暴地對待，橫行霸道：
例句：
a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.
對所有反對意見不予理睬的經理