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

I trust not," said Larcher; "but he's one of the pushful sort.

From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Stephens, Robert Neilson

The typical qualities of dissent became a certain pushful exertion by which the external criteria of salvation could be secured.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

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

Here he had Thurlow, the future lord chancellor, as a fellow-clerk, and it is stated that Thurlow promised to help his less pushful comrade in the days of realized ambition.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various