roughshod over.
     out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen[obs3], outbrave[obs3]; stare
out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur[Fr]; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.
     tempt Providence, want snuffing. 
     Adj. insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial,
arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.
     flippant, pert, fresh [U.  S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent,
malapert.
     precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.
     bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng[obs3], unabashed;
brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.
     impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care,
rollicking; jaunty, janty[obs3]; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, “full of sound and fury” [Macbeth]. 
     Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra[Lat]. 
     Phr. one’s bark being worse than his bite; “beggars mounted run
their horse to death” [Henry VI]; quid times?  Caesarem vehis [Lat][Plutarch]; wagahai wa [Jap:  I (expressing superiority)].

     #886.  Servility. —­ N. servility; slavery &c. (subjection) 749;
obsequiousness &c. adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation|; genuflection &c. (worship) 990; fawning &c. v.; tuft-hunting, timeserving[obs3], flunkeyism[obs3]; sycophancy &c. (flattery) 933; humility &c. 879.
     sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter[obs3]; snob,
flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens[Lat], hanger on, cavaliere servente[It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank[obs3]; flatterer &c. 935; doer of dirty work; ame damnee[Fr], tool; reptile; slave &c. (servant) 746; courtier; beat*, dead beat*, doughface * [obs3][U.  S], heeler [U.  S.], homme de cour[Fr], sponger, sucker*, tagtail[obs3], truckler. 
     V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one’s knees,
prostrate oneself; worship &c. 990.
     sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick
the feet of, kiss the hem of one’s garment, kiss one’s ass[vulg.], suck up.
     pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself
upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres[Fr], keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of.
     go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run
with the hounds. 
     Adj. servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily,
pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v. 
     Adv. hat in hand, cap in hand.