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Self-asserting   Listen
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Self-asserting  adj.  Asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.





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"Self-asserting" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thus she may have been led honestly to compare herself with Emily Warren, who was not only richly endowed but highly cultivated; at any rate her small vanity had vanished also, and she was in contrast as self-distrustful and hesitating in manner as she formerly had been abrupt and self-asserting. Moreover she had either lost her interest in her neighbor's petty affairs, or else had been made to feel that a tendency to gossip was not a captivating trait, and we heard no more about what this one ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
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... shall the New Redeem the pledge the Old Year made, Or prove a self-asserting heir? But healthy hearts few qualms invade: By shot-chests grouped in bays 'tween guns The gossips chat, the ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville
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... nickname correctly indicated the moral import of his countenance, sheepishly gave Moosoo, the old Frenchman, an ounce of gold-dust for an hour's labor bestowed on Hatchetjaw's self-asserting red hair. ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
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Words linked to "Self-asserting" :   cocky, forceful, emphatic, aggressive, self-assertive, assertive, unassertive, imperative


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