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

With such a mother as Caterina, the natural daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, he was bound to acquire with her milk the instincts of a pushful personality.

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe

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 Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

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

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

They had a pushful bustling “wide-awake” firm of solicitors, who let not a point escape. 

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington