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

This is the work of one pushful, shoving creature, a man named Harman.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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

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

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