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pushover

noun as in something or someone easily influenced

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That doesn’t mean she was a pushover or naive; she took names and kept receipts of those who had done her wrong.

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As a summary of his research succinctly put it: “Be nice. Be ready to forgive. But don’t be a pushover.”

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She also turns out to be no pushover herself, yet even she sees the Freemans as misanthropic freaks.

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“We advise consumers to give insurers the chance to do the right thing but to not be pushovers and realize insurers are for-profit companies and not charitable organizations,” she said.

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Celtic won and deserved to - character as much as class sealed it - but Aberdeen were no pushovers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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