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ROUGHSHOD | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
The government could not rush through unpopular policies in its familiar nonchalant fashion, as it had ridden roughshod over civil society in the 1980s.
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.
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