WordNet
v. treat inconsiderately or harshly [syn: run roughshod]
Usage examples of "ride roughshod".
Balch acted like a man who'd ride roughshod over everything or anybody.
He regretted only that they had hesitated to ride roughshod over Carpenter, Marable and the lot of them.
No Calder is going to ride roughshod on us little guys and ever get away with it again.
To put that railroad through on schedule Mike King would ride roughshod through and over anything that got in the way.
She thinks she's so high and mighty and can just ride roughshod over us because we collect their rubbish!
In some ways, the Lizards were very much like his own people: if you convinced one of them you had superior status, he would grovel, but he would ride roughshod over you if he thought himself of the higher rank.
It was the single most effective constraint on the power of the nobility, who no longer dared ride roughshod over their tenants.
Could man in his vanity and pride ride roughshod through space and time forever, forcing his will on all other living creatures, giving them life or death according to his sufferance?
After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world-and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and .
After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world--and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and.