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[ adjective ] confidently aggressive

Examples

"too assertive as a salesman" "his self-assertive and unflagging energy"

Used in print

(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)

A world in which wives have taken a more active role is likely to produce sexual_relationships in which wives are more self-assertive , too '' .

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive - the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response .

Related terms

aggressive

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[ adjective ] offensively self-assertive

Synonyms

bumptious

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