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
With such a mother as Caterina, the natural daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, he was bound to acquire with her milk the instincts of a pushful personality.
From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe
No wonder the Fifth Symphony appeals so much to our virtuous and pushful middle-class audiences.
From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock
The result is that while the little man often seems vain and pushful, the giant usually is very tame, and modest, and unobtrusive.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
He had only joined the riot from youthful exuberance and a desire to be "in the hearse," as an old Scottish lady once bitterly observed of a too pushful mourner at her husband's funeral.
From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian
