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Meanings of
forwardness
in English
Portuguese
petulância
Catalan
petulància
Spanish
engreimiento
Back to the meaning
Offensive boldness and assertiveness.
cockiness
pushiness
bumptiousness
Portuguese
petulância
Catalan
disponibilitat
Spanish
disponibilidad
Back to the meaning
Prompt willingness.
eagerness
zeal
readiness
Catalan
disponibilitat
Synonyms
Examples for "
cockiness
"
cockiness
pushiness
bumptiousness
Examples for "
cockiness
"
1
No amount of greatness can make me understand that level of
cockiness
.
2
Probably not arrogance or
cockiness
;
he hadn't struck her as the type.
3
I want to cripple his
cockiness
with the palm of my hand.
4
The
cockiness
of artists is enough to take away a man's breath.
5
The
cockiness
.
An impatient hand gesture encompassed him from head to toe.
1
Deep down she'd begun to grow tired of Molly's smugness and
pushiness
.
2
The dining room had a calm, relaxed atmosphere without a hint of
pushiness
.
3
Right now, their fractious
pushiness
has a certain schoolyard charm.
4
I'm just looking, I said, flustered by his
pushiness
.
5
He was, as ever, courteous and attentive, but there was no new possessiveness or
pushiness
.
1
He chose the latter, for the
bumptiousness
was chilled in him.
2
Though he was intolerant of
bumptiousness
,
the Cardinal liked young men.
3
But
bumptiousness
is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
4
He was not a mere gob of
bumptiousness
covered with the shell of cocksureness.
5
Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his
bumptiousness
gone.
Usage of
forwardness
in English
1
She should avoid
forwardness
,
and be quiet in manner and in speech.
2
The maize granary at Parramatta was also in a state of
forwardness
.
3
He thereupon privately chid his wife for her
forwardness
in the matter.
4
The treaty for that purpose is in greater
forwardness
than you imagine.
5
Tsz-lu has
forwardness
enough for them both; therefore I hold him back.
6
The Inquiries are at an end, yet nothing is in more
forwardness
.
7
Mr. Chickering was noted for his simplicity and
straight
-
forwardness
in business transactions.
8
The manners of these children are equally removed from shyness and
forwardness
.
9
Its spirit, invention, volubility of tongue, and
forwardness
in action, are unbounded.
10
No
forwardness
,
though, no assumption, yet entire freedom from awkwardness or embarrassment.
11
The princess stared at her daughter in the utmost astonishment at her
forwardness
.
12
Thence to the Dockeyard, and there saw the new ship in great
forwardness
.
13
In due time, consequently, the Turkish dresses were in great
forwardness
.
14
His activity in doing good is not seldom ascribed to
forwardness
.
15
He was an honest enough fellow, but fell in readily with her
forwardness
.
16
The lightness and understatement of oak is brilliantly balanced with
forwardness
of fruit.
Other examples for "forwardness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
forwardness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
great forwardness
own forwardness
unmaidenly forwardness
considerable forwardness
sexual forwardness
More collocations
Translations for
forwardness
Portuguese
petulância
Catalan
petulància
prepotència
atreviment
disponibilitat
promptitud
Spanish
engreimiento
chulería
atrevimiento
prepotencia
disponibilidad
Forwardness
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Forwardness
across language varieties
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