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

Major Mallaby-Kelby was a keen pushful officer, immensely eager to maintain the well-known efficiency of the Brigade while the colonel was away; but he took me into his confidence on another matter.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

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)

And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

Of a surety not in the pushful set of jobbers and tricksters he was condemned to live amongst.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel