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

I trust not," said Larcher; "but he's one of the pushful sort.

From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Here he had Thurlow, the future lord chancellor, as a fellow-clerk, and it is stated that Thurlow promised to help his less pushful comrade in the days of realized ambition.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

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)

Of a surety not in the pushful set of jobbers and tricksters he was condemned to live amongst.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel