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 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)

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

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