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Synonyms for pushy

The synonym for pushy recorded in this bank is officious, in the sense "excessively assertive in trying to intervene or get one's way". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for pushy

officiousadjective, in the sense "excessively assertive in trying to intervene or get one's way"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for pushy.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampActions

excessively assertive in trying to intervene or get one's way

The pushy clerk insisted on stamping forms that clearly did not need stamping.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

officious

Same sentence, swapped: The officious clerk insisted on stamping forms that clearly did not need stamping.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

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courteous
efficient

Where pushy turns up in the game

pushy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where pushy is the trap

insolentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is brazen, in the sense "unrestrained by convention or propriety", so pushy is there to be ruled out.

Play pushy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pushy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other actions words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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