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What does roughshod mean?

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Adjective
  1. (farriery) Of a horse: having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent slipping.
  2. (by extension) Brutal or domineering.
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Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets.
Criminal cops ride roughshod over prosecutors and juries and railroad people into prison or worse.
Liberal Democrats believe devoutly in a pan-European state, which would ride roughshod over local culture and custom.
In the book he shoots from the hip and rides roughshod over reputations, holding a modicum of his once monumental power and relishing it.
However, it is clear that obstetricians cannot ride roughshod over women's choices.
Factional power stifles internal debate, runs roughshod over democratic processes and promotes disenfranchisement.

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