pushful
Example Sentences
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This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was pushful, meant to get on, and had set up white spats as a part of his stock-in-trade.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
He was a big man with a hard, pushful face and a great under jaw.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
I considered him a vulgar and pushful fellow.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various
Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
