pushing
that pushes.
enterprising; energetic.
tactlessly or officiously aggressive; forward; intrusive.
Origin of pushing
1Other words for pushing
Other words from pushing
- push·ing·ly, adverb
- push·ing·ness, noun
Words Nearby pushing
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How to use pushing in a sentence
Artists including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music off of Spotify in protest against Rogan’s pushing of misinformation about the covid-19 vaccines.
What Spotify’s CEO was really telling employees in his memo about Joe Rogan | Scott Nover | February 7, 2022 | QuartzBuilding a working reactor—even a very small one—requires precise and painstaking efforts of both engineering and paper pushing.
A New Generation of Nuclear Reactors Could Hold the Key to a Green Future | Andrew Blum | November 16, 2021 | TimeThe message these stories impart is that the outdoors is a place of conquest, of list-making and box-checking and limit-pushing—which, at its worst, can lead to risky or irresponsible behavior.
There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTYoussef said the jailings are not only driving the community underground but pushing many to move abroad.
Sisi Is Persecuting, Prosecuting, and Publicly Shaming Egypt’s Gays | Bel Trew | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Foxx says that he thinks this generation has the capacity to keep pushing through racial barriers.
And U.S. lawmakers are pushing to involve China in any retaliation against the Sony hack.
Obama Could Hit China to Punish North Korea | Shane Harris, Tim Mak | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd compare, as noted up top, to Secretary Clinton, who spent years quietly pushing a modernized Cuba policy.
My thought was to keep pushing in troops from "W" Beach until the enemy had fallen back to save themselves from being cut off.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonEdward, while busily arranging 'to cross seas' to Flanders, was also pushing forward preparations for a 'Scottish War.'
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonHe lost his head as the lower gates swung open, and broke the rule of the river by pushing out in front of a launch.
Uncanny Tales | VariousA louder and different tone is elicited upon pushing the key further down.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerI am pushing the smiths as hard as possible, and you must do the same at your works, that the greatest dispatch may be made.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis Trevithick
British Dictionary definitions for pushing
/ (ˈpʊʃɪŋ) /
enterprising, resourceful, or aggressively ambitious
impertinently self-assertive
almost or nearly (a certain age, speed, etc): pushing fifty
Derived forms of pushing
- pushingly, adverb
- pushingness, noun
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