pushy

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Their letter to Luke was very nice, hardly pushy at all.

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marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"

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adjective

marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"

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adjective

marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"

Example sentences

Their letter to Luke was very nice, hardly pushy at all.

Optimize for that and you get pushy UX like the one described.

I want to like Quora, but I hate how pushy they are about forcing you to sign up to read their content.

If you have low status and care a lot about your work and doing things the right way, you're "pushy" and "entitled".

It's not pushy like a phone call where you're forced to make conversation with a single person.

With more pushy types, ordering a non-beer gets a weird look and I have to explain myself multiple times.

Seems sort of pushy if Ryan wants to be left alone for a little longer to keep such a thread up that has no news value.

My prefrontal cortex volunteers, but it's always so pushy.

I as a Brit absolutely detest when sales staff are pushy and forcing their way into your purchase decisions.

And then don't be pushy; if you make a couple of advances and they don't reciprocate, back off. Be polite and friendly, say hi in the elevators, and make small talk if they seem to like small talk.

She wanted to know why I wasn't pushing her toward the Mac. "Simple," I said, "we want you to buy an Apple because it's the best product for you, not because some pushy sales-person badgered you into a sale.

It just occurred to me that when I told Intel I wouldn't be returning after my internship, HR was very pushy about where I was going.

Which probably has to be unbearably pushy with its users, since LinkedIn has long eaten everyone's lunch on this market?

If not, do you really want to work for someone so pushy?Interviews are a 2 way street, a lot of interviewers forget that they are also on show to impress the candidate.

The problem is compounded by the fact that many companies will not give a "no" to candidates that are a pass due to legal reasons, social convention or whatever else... it puts candidates who want to be persistent in a weird position, because you "don't want to be pushy," but you don't know whether the company is trying to send a message, taking their time, undecided or just incompetent.