Aggressively self-assured.
Offensively self-assertive.
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Examples for "assertive "
1 However, the high court has also been assertive in protecting religious freedom.
2 The region has welcomed renewed American engagement to balance an assertive China.
3 Such assertive action is, on the basis of past official lethargy, essential.
4 It was assertive , aggressive but great, to get through to second place.
5 She was unusual and far too assertive for a lady of quality.
1 Her self - asserting manner had vanished; she was quiet, she was even humble.
2 Afterward he became noisy, self - asserting , sharp, and seemingly devoid of moral sense or honesty.
3 Faithful witnessing to men of their sins need not be rude, harsh, or self - asserting .
4 The Doctor, though he was a self - asserting and somewhat violent man, was thoroughly soft-hearted.
5 He had been ever bold and self - asserting ; but now he was perhaps a little over-bold.
1 It was crude, self-conscious and self - assertive ; provincial and formative, rather than formed.
2 The more shattered and unsure he grew, the more self - assertive was she.
3 The other, whose name was Buckley, was bigger and much more self - assertive .
4 The strongest, the most self - assertive , tend to tread down the weaker.
5 He had thought the man self - assertive , over self-confident, while disagreeably cringing in manner.
6 The waves of feeling, half self - assertive , half repentant, ebbed and flowed.
7 Where Washington had been polite and ingratiating, DuBois was self - assertive and, frequently, aggressive.
8 His was a firm mind, sure of itself, but not self - assertive .
9 It was sympathetic; never self - assertive , as the hard, brilliant Irish intellect so often is.
10 On the surface all is new writing, clean and self - assertive .
11 Strong for his years and self - assertive , the boys feared him.
12 Margot looked suddenly anxious, and at the same time self - assertive .
13 She was rudely intellectual and violently self - assertive , though kind-hearted withal.
14 Aunt Felicia should not have been so self - assertive , so tactless.
15 Correct everything self - assertive , which includes nine tenths of all vulgarity.
16 There was an entire absence of the self-spirit, that is the self - assertive , the self-confident spirit.
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