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Self-asserting   /sɛlf-əsˈərtɪŋ/   Listen
Self-asserting

adjective
1.
Aggressively self-assured.  Synonyms: assertive, self-assertive.  "Pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act"






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"Self-asserting" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... objected to this book that both animals and men are represented in it under too favourable an aspect; that their sociable qualities are insisted upon, while their anti-social and self-asserting instincts are hardly touched upon. This was, however, unavoidable. We have heard so much lately of the "harsh, pitiless struggle for life," which was said to be carried on by every animal against all other animals, every "savage" ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... from the eyes of the immigrant who has lost all his illusions of the land where dollars grow on the street and where everyone has an equal chance to be president, and if you do not cringe in abject humility, you are not unlikely to be insufferably self-asserting, considering that the world has robbed you and that now it is your turn to get all that is coming to you. So you make loud demands in a rude, ordering voice. The nurse is there to wait upon you—and finally you will ...
— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter



Words linked to "Self-asserting" :   imperative, aggressive, cocky, forceful, emphatic, unassertive



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