pushful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- pushfully adverb
- pushfulness noun
Etymology
Origin of pushful
Example Sentences
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Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.
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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.
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And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?
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Close astern of her comes War Ordnance, her pushful young captain having taken heed of the sounds of Standard's weighing.
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This is the work of one pushful, shoving creature, a man named Harman.
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