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adj. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

adj. unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

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"

brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)

adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

point-blank

adj. close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank range"; "a point-blank shot"

harsh, rigorous, brutal, cruel, unkind

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish

adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

Philistine

adj. of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people

ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying

adj. without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"

sadistic

adj. deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another

homicidal, murderous

adj. characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs"

poisonous, venomous, vicious

adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

cutthroat, fierce, bowelless

adj. ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"

noxious

adj. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"

violent

adj. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death"

crimson, red, violent

adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode

booted

adj. wearing boots

ironshod

adj. shod or cased with iron; "ironshod hooves"; "ironshod wheels"

sandaled, sandalled

adj. shod with sandals

slippered

adj. shod with slippers

authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing

adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory

adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"

blustery, bullying

adj. noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others

cavalier, high-handed

adj. given to haughty disregard of others

imperious, masterful

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous

adj. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

cannibalic

adj. marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage

brutal

adj. disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"

inhuman

adj. belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"

pitiless, unkind

adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings

humane

adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering

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