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attached horseshoes with nails sticking out of them to stop a horse from sliding

roughshod(adj)

(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious(adj)

(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"

heavy-handed, roughshod(adj)

unjustly domineering

"incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

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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