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

They were indebted to him for much useful information, though for some time his bonâ-fides were suspected because of his pushful partiality for conflict with any nationality rather than his own.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter

"Directly I go away from here I shall make a list of my most really obstinate, pushful friends to help me."

From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

“Here are ancestors for you, Mistress,” Dr. Johnson might have said to Mrs. Thrale if he had only known—if he had had a genealogist at his elbow as well as a pushful biographer.

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King

This is the work of one pushful, shoving creature, a man named Harman.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)