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  • adverb In a pushy manner.

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Examples

  • That's really what it comes down to, doesn't it... was she pushily trying to get you to cover up because, oh, gosh, shameful body part!

    Under The Blanket 2008

  • Ben pledges to concentrate more on Gnoos, something which I have been urging him to do for some time now perhaps too pushily?

    Time for Aussie 2.0ers to Hitwise up 2008

  • Ben pledges to concentrate more on Gnoos, something which I have been urging him to do for some time now perhaps too pushily?

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • This time when Obama emerges a guy in a blue fleece presses in and pushily asks Obama to pose for a picture with him.

    Mayhill Fowler: Pennsylvania Campaign Journal: Obama Hams It Up, Flirts, And Gets A Bit Cocky 2008

  • In the wake of "Nipplegate" — the infamous Super Bowl halftime show in which Janet Jackson's breast was exposed — the Federal Communications Commission has very pushily pursued a crusade against broadcast indecency.

    Air Pollution 2004

  • In the wake of "Nipplegate" — the infamous Super Bowl halftime show in which Janet Jackson's breast was exposed — the Federal Communications Commission has very pushily pursued a crusade against broadcast indecency.

    Air Pollution 2004

  • "It won't take long for me to tell you our idea," Brashen countered pushily.

    The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999

  • Time keeps movie 'on Friends, they turn away I keep movie' on, but I never found out why I keep pushily 'so hard all' babe, I keep try'n To make it right to another lonely day.

    Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

  • I planned to bestow the books upon some friends, pushily proselytizing like one of those people who, eyes ablaze, cram salvation pamphlets into pedestrians' hands, certain that anyone who reads the words will become a convert .

    Slate Magazine Jonah Weiner 2011

  • What happens is, the ones who know, or think they know, overwhelm the whole class-process and demand all the attention, and they pushily get it.

    phpBB.com Eelke 2010

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