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
The result is that while the little man often seems vain and pushful, the giant usually is very tame, and modest, and unobtrusive.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
Servia and Greece have long watched the rapid and uninterrupted progress of their pushful neighbour with mixed feelings of fear and envy.
From Bulgaria by Sir Frank Fox
The Tanglefoot," continued Sheila, while a sigh of sheer rapture rose from the crowd, "is pre-eminently the car for a medical man or pushful undertaker.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 by Various
Close astern of her comes War Ordnance, her pushful young captain having taken heed of the sounds of Standard's weighing.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
