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 considered him a vulgar and pushful fellow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various

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)

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