Roughshod Definition

Roughshod Sentence Examples

• But Tait had none of Tillotson's gentleness, and he rode roughshod over the obstacles in his way.

• The police were to be employed, it was said, as the instruments of a new despotism, the enlisted members of a new standing army, under the centralized authority, riding roughshod over the peaceable citizens.

• It was a hollow truce, since the subject of the constitutions was not mentioned; and Thomas returned to England with the determination of riding roughshod over the king's supporters.

• Tesco must not be allowed to ride roughshod over a local democratic process in this way.

• The Government are already riding roughshod over popular opinion in their dash for wind.