pushover
Example Sentences
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The new rules also have empowered some of the sport’s longtime pushover programs to gleefully kick sand in the faces of their former bullies.
“A Swanburne girl may forgive as she chooses, but she is no pushover, either,” she told herself, and felt rather pleased about it, too.
From Literature
That doesn’t mean she was a pushover or naive; she took names and kept receipts of those who had done her wrong.
From Los Angeles Times
As a summary of his research succinctly put it: “Be nice. Be ready to forgive. But don’t be a pushover.”
From Los Angeles Times
She also turns out to be no pushover herself, yet even she sees the Freemans as misanthropic freaks.
From Los Angeles Times
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