Main entry: heavy-handed, roughshod
Definition: unjustly domineering
Usage: incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies; a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
Main entry: brutal, barbarous, cruel, vicious, savage, roughshod, fell
Definition: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Usage: a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks
Main entry: roughshod
Definition: (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping