Roughshod in a sentence as an adjective

The trouble is that if we have much of it here, it rides roughshod over everything else.

If you ride roughshod over all that and decide cases according to sweeping principles, it's much easier to be open and succinct.

It has for 20 years baffled me that people can demand respect for the GPL et al but be happy to ride roughshod over anyone else's licenses.

If you haven't played cards against humanity, many of the cards run roughshod over subjects that would give network execs heart attacks.

I think their problem is that the intelligence world is used to acting like arrogant cowboys running roughshod over the rule of law with no oversight.

Less free than under Wilson, during whose presidency Bureau of Prohibition ran roughshod through the nation searching for illegal booze?

I feel like you're trying to find a way to ignore the entire science of nutrition because you got burned listening to a fad or because big tobacco ran roughshod over science six decades ago.

It's that they're mad about Silicon Valley companies riding roughshod over the web of compromises and understandings that exist between these industries and the people affected by these industries.

It's such a polarizing issue that both sides of the debate are inclined to overreact and overreach and wind up riding roughshod over each other's perspectives, which generates more bad feelings and makes everybody more extreme.

A few semesters later I took a fluff software engineering course and had to hack out some various java server bits and had a roughshod time of it as I ran head first into the now common overengineeringitis that plagues modern Java development.

Roughshod definitions

adjective

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

adjective

(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"

See also: barbarous brutal cruel fell savage vicious

adjective

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

See also: heavy-handed