pushful
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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
Of a surety not in the pushful set of jobbers and tricksters he was condemned to live amongst.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
The Tanglefoot," continued Sheila, while a sigh of sheer rapture rose from the crowd, "is pre-eminently the car for a medical man or pushful undertaker.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 by Various
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 Walter Runciman
Having discovered his niche, the pushful Smith soon had his fingers in several other pies.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
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