"pushover" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is typically used as a noun to refer to a person who is easily taken advantage of or someone who gives in without protest. Example: She had no trouble at all convincing him to come along - he's such a pushover.
It should be no part of anyone's argument for war that this will be a pushover.
Syria's president may be less cunning and murderous than his late father, Hafez, but he is nobody's pushover.
And Mr Medvedev, despite his affable image, might be no pushover: by virtue of occupying the Kremlin, he would inevitably gather greater authority .Putin is trying desperately to bolster his position, but he himself did everything to strengthen the presidency at the expense of all others," says Yury Korgunyuk of Indem, a think-tank in Moscow.
The rulers of Indian cricket take a poor view of the boss of the South African board, Haroon Lorgat, apparently because, in his former role as boss of the International Cricket Committee, the global game's governing body, he was less of a pushover than the BCCI would have liked.
Many want Mr Gul, a globally popular former foreign minister, who is lauded for his easy style, yet is no pushover, to swap seats with Mr Erdogan.Opinion polls suggest that Mr Gul would beat Mr Erdogan if he decides to run for a second presidential term.
Since developing countries as defined by Kyoto are now responsible for 58% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, their exemption has both poisoned the waters of the UN process and rendered it ineffective.The developing-country polluters, however, were not a pushover.
Mr Sezer first proved he was no pliant pushover when in August he twice rejected a military-inspired decree, forwarded by Mr Ecevit, which would have enabled the government to sack thousands of civil servants deemed to be overly pious Muslims or too sympathetic to the restless Kurds.
He has the full support of President Barack Obama, who has stood America's military might behind South Korea.But Mr Kim is no pushover.
The dealmakers Mitt Romney's legacy ReprintsSan Bernardino has proved less of a pushover.
Enthusiastic without being over-the-top, pragmatic without being a pushover, he is also the perfect embodiment of mens sana in corpore sano tall and lean, clean-cut and athletic, a Thomas Arnold for the digital age.Since moving to the Education Department a couple of months ago he has been a tireless preacher of the reform gospel.
But the CME Group's lawyer-turned-boss is no pushover.
