ride roughshod

1. 1.

   treat inconsiderately or harshly

   Synonymsrun roughshod

   Broadertreat

Questions about ride roughshod

What does ride roughshod mean?

ride roughshod means "treat inconsiderately or harshly".

What is another word for ride roughshod?

Close synonyms include run roughshod. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ride roughshod a common word?

ride roughshod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.