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

Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.

He was a big man with a hard, pushful face and a great under jaw.

From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

No wonder the Fifth Symphony appeals so much to our virtuous and pushful middle-class audiences.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock