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roughshod

 adverb
     
rough‧shod

ride roughshod over somebody/something

especially British English

; ; run roughshod over somebody/something

American English to behave in a way that ignores other people's feelings or opinions:
We cannot ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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