ROUGHSHOD Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

roughshod

adverb

as in violently

without thinking or caring about the opinions, rights, or feelings of others The demanding boss ran roughshod over her demoralized employees.

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Recent Examples of roughshod Above all else, the Big East cleared space for college basketball in a world increasingly run roughshod by the pigskin. —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026 The sense of place and time has been run over roughshod. —

Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024 The Bruins ran roughshod over the NHL this season, but the playoffs mark a different, often more unfair, season. —

Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023 So fast, in fact, that any explanation that does not involve a behemoth black hole running roughshod between galaxies would seem unlikely. —

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for roughshod

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That mugshot—with her straight dark hair, motorcycle jacket, and flat, defiant stare—would come to represent a nation, and generation, in crisis; a startling declaration that America’s own sons and daughters had turned violently against their country.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Now, he's pardoned all of these people, despite the fact that they were convicted of violently assaulting police officers, conspiring to overthrow the government of the United States in seditious conspiracy, and so on.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 May 2026