pushiness

pushiness
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall1, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfi-dence, pertness, presumptuousness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal: brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppitynesS. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY.

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  • pushiness — push·i·ness …   English syllables

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