What's the difference between cheeky and pushy?

Cheeky


Definition:

  • () a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Magnussen performed a cheeky pass on Hulkenberg before they reached the second safety line, controversial.
  • (2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
  • (3) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
  • (4) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (5) 'He’s still a cheeky little sod, but he’s definitely a nicer boy' … Allan and Michelle Darwin with their son Zane.
  • (6) However, give or take the odd cheeky top-up, here I am in the one-glass-of-wine-a-night zone.
  • (7) (Plus, he was still willing to play the cheeky bad boy, criticising Sainsbury's stance on chicken, and only apologising to the company once he had got his message across.)
  • (8) It was a cheeky thing to say since "misuse" is a loaded term.
  • (9) John Oliver's cheeky net neutrality plea crashes FCC website Read more Spurred on by online activists including Fight for the Future , a six-person team that has managed to coordinate protests with people and companies including Reddit, Netflix, Mozilla and PornHub, people have now submitted more than four million comments on the FCC proposals.
  • (10) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
  • (11) His assertion in interviews that the borrowing rate is 8.9% to 14.9% is also a little bit cheeky.
  • (12) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (13) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (14) "Or is he off being cheeky and cheerful (but ineffective) somewhere else?
  • (15) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
  • (16) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (17) What makes cheeky Salmond think an independent Scotland would be allowed to use the pound, or enter the EU, or be admitted to Nato?
  • (18) Andrew is an extrovert, a cheerful lovely soul, a cheeky guy,” says Morrissey.
  • (19) I remember those children when we first met them, and they were so bubbly, and so vibrant and cheeky and funny and just over time how their personality would change,” Reen said.
  • (20) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.

Pushy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sandberg's book essentially gives us permission to be pushy broads.
  • (2) He knew what he wanted, but he was never too pushy.
  • (3) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
  • (4) At worst, they say, it would pave the way for the privatisation of the school system - in Sweden they are allowed to make a profit - and at best the system would simply be exploited by pushy middle-class parents who would exclude disadvantaged children by dint of their address.
  • (5) Prince Charles is much more pushy and writes letters about his views which are on the edge of the mainstream.
  • (6) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
  • (7) "There have been books written about why people do things and don't do things, and they point to things like: I am second generation, my grandparents came from Russia in 1907, you can go through it all … I think I had a pushy mother, a pushy Jewish mother," he laughs, "who used to wrap everything in plastic."
  • (8) In addition, women who ask for more money are often punished for what is seen as breaking out of their stereotype of “communal, caring and submissive” , and accused of being pushy or aggressive.
  • (9) It's not those with pushy parents who think they should study maths for the sake of it.
  • (10) But I take some comfort from his suggestion that I would possibly be easier to train to IAM standards than my husband (if I could keep my pushiness under control).
  • (11) Bellingham reported it was because Hall believed that “even if I was the worst actress in the world, I would always work because I was so pushy”.
  • (12) These effects were specified by leadership self-concept (little difference between groups when confronting pushy followers, more when confronting passive ones), prompting an interpretation in terms of role incongruity.
  • (13) I was put across as the pushy parent who wanted a grammar school place for her son and nothing else.
  • (14) True to stereotype, the caller is a pushy salesman, trying to work an angle.
  • (15) It's not particularly powerful, which makes it easier to drive in a less pushy way, keeping speed limits in mind.
  • (16) But it may not be right for everyone and I’d hate to have a system in which pushy parents demanded home births, overriding the professionals’ advice.
  • (17) They are not, generally, short, pushy, vulgar, uncultured, impetuous, shamelessly admiring of money and those who have it, or married – three months after divorcing his last wife, two months after meeting the new one – to ex-supermodels whose past conquests reportedly include Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger.
  • (18) And sometimes I say "sorry" because, if I don't, the person to whom I'm apologizing will think I'm a pushy bitch.
  • (19) Speculating aloud, I hazard a guess that it has something to do with her character, that she is not pushy enough, not an attention-seeker.
  • (20) Yes he's a good little runner but I'm certainly not going to be a pushy parent – I'm just going to see what he enjoys."