run roughshod over

English

Verb

run roughshod over (third-person singular simple present runs roughshod over, present participle running roughshod over, simple past ran roughshod over, past participle run roughshod over)

1. Synonym of ride roughshod over
   • 2014, Jacob T. Levy, “The Constitutional Entrenchment of Federalism”, in James E. Fleming, Jacob T. Levy, editors, Federalism and Subsidiarity, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 347:

     [I]f the demos really were like a passionate drunk, willing and able to run roughshod over minorities, then it might also be willing and able to run roughshod over the judiciary or the constitution.

   • 2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The announcement was also a tacit acknowledgment of Facebook’s yearslong failure to control hazardous rhetoric running roughshod on the social network, particularly during the election.