Sentence examples for pushy behavior from inspiring English sources

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Yet doctors and nurses are frequently exasperated by what they consider to be pushy behavior.

Her œuvre is brimming with examples of this believability: nervous breakdowns take the routine form of negligent hygiene and pushy behavior in line at Old Navy; petty theft goes unpunished; a little girl floating face down in a swimming pool is only pretending; a teen-age daughter is kind to her parents only after they buy her a pair of overpriced bluejeans.

That sort of pushy behavior, sketchy though it may be, is not a new phenomenon when it comes to freemium services and the model seems to be working for the company.

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Or they think of a used-car salesman--and all that says about pushy sales behavior.

In a review of the show, Newsday called Ms. Lorber a "pushy suck-up," while Slate.com wrote that "her behavior is so unyieldingly superior that she's an absolute delight to hate".

For example, a woman might be called over-aggressive and pushy while a man's review would call similar behavior confident and leader-like.

But these behaviors, when displayed by women, can be called "pushy and difficult" - because they "violate shared cultural understandings of how women should act".

Don't be pushy, bossy, difficult, or unpleasant to ditsy people as this can just reinforce their behavior.

An inveterate liar with a blithe lack of scruples and a pushy tongue, he nevertheless awakens the Duke to the unwelcome truths about the possible divergence between private behavior and public appearance, as well as the harshness of the Duke's high-minded ideals.

Pushy parents.

How pushy is too pushy?

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