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

The typical qualities of dissent became a certain pushful exertion by which the external criteria of salvation could be secured.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

He had only joined the riot from youthful exuberance and a desire to be "in the hearse," as an old Scottish lady once bitterly observed of a too pushful mourner at her husband's funeral.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

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 Canuck, Janey

This is the work of one pushful, shoving creature, a man named Harman.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)