[adj] unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
[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"
[adj] (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
Synonyms
barbarous, brutal, cruel, domineering, fell, heavy-handed, inhumane, savage, shod, shodden, shoed, vicious