pushful
Americanadjective
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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
He was a big man with a hard, pushful face and a great under jaw.
From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
Close astern of her comes War Ordnance, her pushful young captain having taken heed of the sounds of Standard's weighing.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
Servia and Greece have long watched the rapid and uninterrupted progress of their pushful neighbour with mixed feelings of fear and envy.
From Bulgaria by Fox, Frank, Sir
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
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