self-asserting
Example Sentences
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“He’s definitely self-asserting himself and being super aggressive. He understands that he has an opportunity in front of him,” Beal said of Kuzma.
From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2022
Given his height and elaborate way of dressing he was more visible than other people, but there was nothing exclusionary or self-asserting about his manner.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2018
Such a spirited, self-asserting demeanor is becoming more loudly embraced across pop culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018
Koestler believes that the western world owes its troubles to the "hypertrophy of the self-asserting drives with a corresponding decline of the self-transcending impulses."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Biddy,” said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, “I must request to know what you mean by this?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
