What's the difference between roughshod and vicious?
Roughshod
Definition:
(a.) Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is only when the British government stops riding roughshod over the fundamental rights of Afghan civilians that it can ever hope to begin to meet its stated goal of strengthening the rule of law and building a fair system of justice in Afghanistan .
(2) Is the hospital riding roughshod over the family's feelings?
(3) But, after riding roughshod over the gentlemanly world of advertising to build WPP, he still sees himself as an outsider and defends his pay as aggressively as he makes his deals.
(4) To ride roughshod over these powerful feelings is to make a cardinal mistake.
(5) World Bank lending: how the organisation rode roughshod over its own rules – interactive Read more The bank has said its goals are to end extreme poverty and reduce income inequality worldwide.
(6) The government is so desperate to be seen to be doing something, anything, to appease the countryside lobby, that it is willing to ride roughshod over facts, science, and the wildlife that belongs to each and every one of us lucky enough to live in Britain.
(7) Wulff can either decide to sign the law, thus riding roughshod over the opposition, or take the more constitutional route and let it go through the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, which is unlikely to pass it.
(8) From rail fares to welfare, local authorities find themselves frustrated by the impact of quangos at times riding roughshod over the interests of local people."
(9) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
(10) Lehrer was accused of allowing the candidates to ride roughshod over the debate's rules, failing to enforce time limits that had been agreed upon beforehand and generally letting the entire discussion drift off topic and failing to impose himself on either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.
(11) Internet surveillance by the NSA has shamefully expanded exponentially under Obama, and despite his 2008 campaign promises to rein in the agency’s power, time and again he has let the NSA run roughshod over the privacy of the world’s citizens.
(12) He feels that the television companies ride roughshod over the game's authorities to dictate kick-off times to suit them, with no regard for the clubs' requirements.
(13) Sir Alex Ferguson's refusal to speak to the BBC for seven years was the most obvious example of the extent to which some clubs rode roughshod over the existing rules, although he eventually resolved his row with the broadcaster after the intervention of the then director general, Mark Thompson.
(14) It's because those upstanding Americans who cheered as Barack Obama's predecessor rode roughshod over the constitution in his war on terror have found a new enthusiasm for a strict adherence to the US's supreme law.
(15) The international community has to understand that in an increasingly interrelated world, critical problems recognise no borders and ride roughshod over sovereignty.
(16) The government wants all creditors to be protected but the government created PPF is riding roughshod over small independent creditors.” The administrators told the creditors that they may get more than 3p in the pound if Green agrees a deal with the Pensions Regulator to make a cash injection into the BHS pension scheme.
(17) Whatever else might be said of the Kremlin’s information strategy, it is undoubtedly in tune with the zeitgeist: one that is also visible in America and Britain, where what Stephen Colbert memorably called “truthiness” can run roughshod over fact-based discourse.
(18) Home Office minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach accused the Liberal Democrats of disingenuous opportunism and riding roughshod over advice of parliamentary clerks.
(19) On the other hand, the White House is calculating that were the Republicans to sustain their obstructionism and refuse even to look at as non-partisan a figure as Merrick Garland, it would expose them to the accusation that they have run roughshod over the US constitution in the cause of party politics.
(20) There can be no doubt that the instinct of the home secretary would have been to reintroduce the “snooper’s charter” as quickly as possible after the election, but Theresa May was unable to do so because that would have ridden roughshod over Anderson’s report.
Vicious
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
(a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
(a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
(a.) Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
(a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(3) When he attacked New York, his vicious crusade was as much against skyscrapers as it was against western values and the US.
(4) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(5) This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico.
(6) Each of these reactions can increase the perception of chest pain, contributing to a vicious cycle that exacerbates both the chest pain and the anxiety.
(7) This vicious circle should be broken rather by finding optimal conditions than by a middle course determined by experimental requirements, economical frames and general notions about what may be good for the animal.
(8) In spite of the relatively large sample and the given number of variables the problem of the vicious circle might occur.
(9) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
(10) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
(11) According to the International Crisis Group , tensions within and between the two major political parties, competing claims to the presidency between northern and Niger Delta politicians and along religious lines, along with inadequate preparations by the electoral commission and apparent bias by security agencies, suggest the country is heading toward a volatile and vicious electoral contest.
(12) A vicious circle with the increased resistance as the key factor can be identified.
(13) This vicious cycle could be interrupted by segmental epidural anesthesia with procaine as well as by blockade of sympathoexcitation at the central nervous level with clonidine in anesthetized dogs.
(14) This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims – and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.” Wood was executed for shooting to death Debra Dietz, his former girlfriend, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989.
(15) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
(16) Using mathematical models of the population dynamics of T helper cells, HIV and other pathogens we address three facets of the interactions between HIV and other pathogens: enhanced HIV replication due to immune stimulation by other pathogens; modified immune control of other pathogens due to immunosuppression by HIV; and the vicious circle formed by positive feedback between these two effects.
(17) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
(18) He said US prisons were tough and safe enough to handle the most vicious al-Qaida terrorist suspects now held at Guantánamo.
(19) When Cruise announced last October that he was suing Bauer, his lawyer, Bert Fields, described the claim that the actor had deserted his daughter as a “vicious lie”.
(20) Meanwhile, people in poor countries are already battling its vicious storms.