push around

verb

pushed around; pushing around; pushes around
Synonyms of push aroundnext

transitive verb

: to impose on contemptuously : bully

Examples of push around in a Sentence

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Our job is to educate those people about how they’re being pushed around like pawns. Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026 Ostensibly an effort to recenter the female perspective in some of the most famous tales from the Book of Genesis, the three-part event miniseries instead treats its characters like paper dolls to be pushed around at the whims of a narrative set in stone millennia ago. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 Mar. 2026 How To Clean Laminate Floors First get rid of crumbs, dirt, dust, and other small particles that will just get pushed around the floor during mopping. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026 And they get pushed around by changes in surface tension. Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for push around

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of push around was in 1923

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“Push around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/push%20around. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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