Aggressive
aggressive (adjective) - forceful, determined, and eager to succeed
[Caution: Often has a negative meaning]
aggressive marketing
aggressive advertising
aggressive with clients
an aggressive campaign
an aggressive recruitment campaign
an aggressive consumer recruitment campaign
ferociously aggressive
an aggressive world
aggressive animals
an aggressive dog
territorial and aggressive
aggressive imperialism
an aggressive child
naturally aggressive
aggressive, self-assertive, and driven to succeed
an aggressive approach
aggressive behaviour
aggressive teaching
an aggressive person
aggressive in tone and content
an aggressive pose
appear aggressive
extremely aggressive
overly aggressive
aggressive dictator
an aggressive style
aggressive and violent
aggressive outbursts
an aggressive attitude
male aggressiveness
aggressive driving
aggressive qualities
competition and aggression
loud and aggressive
in one of his aggressive moods
take out your aggressions on Y
take a very aggressive stance on the issue
aggressive with a will of iron
publication aggressive in its tone
aggressive plainness
Example sentences:
* The young man was aggressive, self-assertive, and driven to succeed.
* "People think he's an aggressive person but at home he's absolutely adorable."
* "It was a ferociously aggressive world but the family business managed to survive."
* Aggressive marketing by the chain store helped it survive its first years in business.
* "Strong aggressive animals are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground."
* "Supervisors must be aware and sensitive to negative behavioural and attitudinal indicators in order to anticipate and prevent aggressive or violent outbursts."
* "Beware of appearing overly aggressive or unnecessarily rude."
* "There are marketing techniques that are totally inappropriate to education, these include: cut throat competition, volume discounts, aggressive advertising, free coupons, two for the price of one, and money back offers."
* The publication was fairly aggressive in its tone.
* "Peasants carried out particularly aggressive seizures of land and timber."
* "Chess players say that she is the most aggressive and inspirational of the three, and the most like her father, with a will of iron."
* "They say that the voluntary code will allow the firms to continue their aggressive marketing of the infant-formula including using health workers to promote it."
* "He urged the government agency to take a very aggressive stance on the issue."
* "Who wants an aggressive horse?"
* "In marmots, large ground-dwelling squirrels, for example, adult males are territorial and aggressive."
* "By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness, by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter, prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community."
* "It was essential to Bismarck's plans that France should appear as an aggressive power, threatening Prussia in particular and the peace of Europe in general."
* "Some crabs employ an aggressive form of autotomy."
* We will not be producing an aggressive consumer recruitment campaign.
* She's not naturally aggressive."
* "When I was at school, the housemaster made it his duty to chose the cooks, maids and bottle-washers; his criteria being age combined with an aggressive plainness."
* "The infant fears for the effect of aggressive forces on the people he loves and on himself."
* The little boy is extremely aggressive and other parents are complaining that their children come home crying."
* "Studies in the homes of families with an aggressive child indicate that the siblings of that child also show a high rate of aggressive behaviour but that this is directed at the sibling rather than the parent."
* "Past experience in nursing can also reflect a very hierarchical, even military approach, and some procedures may have suffered at the hands of obsessional and aggressive teaching."
* "Unlike other tribes, boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men."
* "If the dog has been aggressive to children, it may not be suitable for your circumstances."
* "Highly aggressive in tone and content, the new magazine became a hit overnight with teenagers experiencing typical teenage angst."
* "Dealers need to take an aggressive approach with clients, to wear them down."
* "The girl pulled herself from the mattress and stood with one hand on her hip, in an aggressive pose."
* "I believe that the less aggressive definition of appropriation which I have put forward fits the word as used in an honest sense in the section of the law that are reviewing as well as elsewhere in the new law."
* "We saw Saddam as an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbours."
* "The UN maintains that the military units had no aggressive intent but it concedes that they broke the agreements by moving south out of Angola."
* "The state must, therefore, like the parents of early childhood, protect the citizen and satisfy all his needs; the state must, again like the parent of the infant, forgive, indulge and tolerate all his activities, even the parricidal, aggressive ones; it must accept all criticism, but never criticize in its turn; it must provide, but never demand in its turn; it must love, cherish and value, but accept hatred, indifference and contempt in return."
* " If you hire him, he is likely to be aggressive and certainly too loud.
* "Being aggressive certainly isn't what it's all about."
* Aggressive driving is caused by a number of things including tiredness from work, commuter traffic, and plain old frustration.
* "He wants to breath new fire into the cause of aggressive free market conservatism."
* "He should have recognized that she was in one of her aggressive moods which alternated with gentle or more co-operative states."
* "I don't like answering that question in the affirmative, because there's a too easy supposition that lots of people have that women have feminine qualities which are sort of softness and sensitivity to people and generosity, rather than slightly more achievement-oriented qualities, you know, aggressive qualities than men have."
