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

They were indebted to him for much useful information, though for some time his bonâ-fides were suspected because of his pushful partiality for conflict with any nationality rather than his own.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter

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

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

Everyone perceived that the young Capo della Repubblica was in full possession of the solid grit of his pushful grandfather.

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe

No wonder the Fifth Symphony appeals so much to our virtuous and pushful middle-class audiences.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock