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
No wonder the Fifth Symphony appeals so much to our virtuous and pushful middle-class audiences.
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
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
“Here are ancestors for you, Mistress,” Dr. Johnson might have said to Mrs. Thrale if he had only known—if he had had a genealogist at his elbow as well as a pushful biographer.
From Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter
And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
