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

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

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

"Directly I go away from here I shall make a list of my most really obstinate, pushful friends to help me."

From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

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)

He was pushful, meant to get on, and had set up white spats as a part of his stock-in-trade.

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)