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词汇 roughshod
释义 roughshod
adjective
uk /ˈrʌf.ʃɒd/ us /ˈrʌf.ʃɑːd/
 ride roughshod over someone/something
to do what you want without giving any attention to other people or their wishes: 粗暴对待某人
They accused the government of riding roughshod over parliamentary procedure.
The Prime Minister rides roughshod over his critics.首相粗暴对待他的批评者。
It doesn't pay to alienate your major shareholders by riding roughshod over their wishes in this way.
The company is riding roughshod over the man in the street.
Who gave them the power to ride roughshod over the law?
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uncared for
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Neglecting and ignoring

Examples of roughshod


roughshod
The government could not rush through unpopular policies in its familiar nonchalant fashion, as it had ridden roughshod over civil society in the 1980s.
From the perspective of realizer functionalism, the role variety rides roughshod over distinctions that need to be taken seriously.
Such methods of repression ran roughshod over the revolutionary rhetoric of individualism.
They were proud to ride roughshod over popular and particularist prejudices.
Unfortunately, speculation seems particularly prone to run roughshod over available data when language evolution becomes the topic of discussion.
Should the state be able to ride roughshod over parents' religious beliefs?
As we will see, they preferred small, localized systems of government, and were deeply concerned that the federal plan would run roughshod over state interests.
This idea is frequently enunciated by sculptors and craftspeople who assert that good workmanship should be 'true to the material', respecting its properties rather than riding roughshod over them.
I do not believe that we are riding roughshod over our procedures.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This does not mean that we have any intention of riding roughshod over any discipline or of acting improperly.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is only the cowboys who will ride roughshod over the health and welfare of employees.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I can assure him that there is no intention whatever of riding roughshod over local susceptibilities and ideas.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The main cause is that people are riding roughshod over one of the basic principles of the administrative policing.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Are they to be ridden roughshod over by the trendy educational fringe?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Obviously, we do not want to ride roughshod over the comforts and reasonable consideration of occupants of land, especially residential land.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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