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pushful

[poosh-fuhl] / ˈpʊʃ fəl /


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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 H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?

From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck

The typical qualities of dissent became a certain pushful exertion by which the external criteria of salvation could be secured.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

Wells, like the pushful tradesman he is, has the very thing in his pocket.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton


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