Sentence:  A story about the way he handled a threatened strike at his Hawthorne track was indicative of the <WSD>roughshod</WSD> way he did business. He invited four strike negotiators to his office, where he dealt a knockout blow to each, laying them out unconscious on the floor. Then he went outside and announced that the pending strike was off. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Brutal or domineering.