roughshod adj

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; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious]

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

English

Adjective

1. In the context of "of a horse": having hooves shod with horseshoes that have projecting nails that prevent slipping
2. In the context of "by extension": brutal or domineering
   • 2005, Edmund White, My Women, The New Yorker, June 13, http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050613fa_fact,

     In the roughshod horny world of boys, I had studied my companions closely to make sure that I wasn’t being too “queer” for them.

Derived terms

• to ride roughshod over

Brutality may refer to:

• BRUTAL (artist), a Swedish psychedelic trance artist
• Brutality (band), an American death metal band
• Brutality (Mortal Kombat), a finishing move in the video game Mortal Kombat
• Brutalism, an architectural style
• Brutal: Paws of Fury, a video game
• Battery (crime)
• Police brutality
• Brutality (Clan Counter Strike)
• Brutality (film), a 1912 film