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
Here he had Thurlow, the future lord chancellor, as a fellow-clerk, and it is stated that Thurlow promised to help his less pushful comrade in the days of realized ambition.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
They had a pushful bustling “wide-awake” firm of solicitors, who let not a point escape.
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
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)
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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