What's the difference between pullover and pushover?

Pullover


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
  • (2) Only after training with a set of shirts that sampled the range of stimulus and response variation for "putting on pullover shirts" was successful generalization observed.
  • (3) "I've got nothing against him if he does a good job," said Wout Van Bavel, a retired businessman in the obligatory orange pullover and shirt.
  • (4) Performance across eight nontrained, probe shirts was used to assess generalization of the skill "putting on pullover shirts."
  • (5) He is said to have been dressed in multiple layers of clothing, including pullovers, although it is summer in Serbia.
  • (6) So please, don't ponder whether Scotland will keep one of England's old pullovers and wear it tearfully around the house on rainy Sundays, having learned her lesson after a brief and unsatisfactory liaison with a wealthy Nordic state.
  • (7) Comforting blankets, fabric toys or forcibly applied pullovers may cause initial inoculation.
  • (8) They see themselves as wholesome, Midwestern folks who just adore rooting on their Cardinals in red pullover sweatshirts.
  • (9) By this time, Freeman was widely known by his nickname "Fluff", apparently derived from his fondness for wearing a loose-fitting submariner's pullover given to him by his mother, Annie.
  • (10) The pullover shirt aid, the largest device, was stored in an adjoining playroom area.
  • (11) When Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general recently sentenced to 24 years for persecuting Serbs , arrived in Scheveningen in 2005, his erstwhile arch-enemy, the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, lent him a pullover because he was cold, according to Ljube Boskovski who spent three years there before being acquitted of war crimes.
  • (12) She can be seen in photographs looking rather fetching in a pullover patterned with the flags of the European nations.
  • (13) @LengelDavid October 26, 2013 I predict we will see lots of shots of 60-year-old women with their hair in a bonnet wearing red Cardinals pullovers.
  • (14) And if I tell you its pupils wear grey blazers with red trim, ties and V-necked pullovers, stand in obedient lines waiting for teachers to lead them into classrooms, and sometimes learn Latin, you probably envisage a leafy suburban school, patronised by affluent white families from expensive detached houses.
  • (15) Reading his work earlier this month at a conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Murray cuts a formidable figure – "the fattest major English-language poet since the 20-stone Ben Jonson", as a critic once bluntly put it – sporting a voluminous pullover and alternately perching a scruffy baseball cap and his spectacles on his domed head.
  • (16) Tying a pullover around your waist to hide the soiled patch behind your uniform in case the tissue leaks is a dead giveaway.

Pushover


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their aim is to score a pushover try by forcing the opposition back inch by inch, until at last Ed Miliband cracks.
  • (2) Palace had started the day in second place and with Cabaye imperious and James McArthur just as impressive at the Frenchman’s side they are no longer pushovers.
  • (3) That is more than West Ham dare hope for, since for a Sam Allardyce side the visitors were pallid here, almost as much of a pushover as the Blackburn rabble that went down 7-1 three years ago at Old Trafford in a result that altered the course of events at Ewood and ultimately Upton Park.
  • (4) Wily and smart, she is more than a match for the suitors who attempt to claim her in his absence; and she is no pushover, either, when Odysseus finally turns up.
  • (5) That is not to suggest that Baker, 55, will prove a pushover for Jeremy Hunt.
  • (6) There will be loyalty, but they will not be pushovers: conservatism is not known to attract those with a collectivist mindset.
  • (7) "I'm not going to be a pushover for the City," he stressed.
  • (8) But Neuberger would be no pushover as president of the supreme court.
  • (9) It is also important to remember that, even if all things were equal, Mugabe would be no electoral pushover.
  • (10) The man who coached Costa Rica to a shock 1-0 win over Scotland in 1990 that helped them qualify from their World Cup group has warned England the Central American side will be no pushovers next summer.
  • (11) In the event, she showed herself (and her whips) to be a pushover for just 18 backbenchers with a lobby or a grievance.
  • (12) We've read all the research and we don't want strict routines, but we don't want to be a deranged pushover either.
  • (13) No one in the industry who knows Campbell will tell you she is a pussycat or a pushover, but many speak highly of her loyalty, her commitment to causes she believes in.
  • (14) Eight weeks later, Patterson was back in the ring for another seemingly routine defence against the unknown Johansson, whose smiling demeanour and playboy reputation suggested he would prove a mere pushover.
  • (15) Though she wouldn't be the first choice to play a pushover, or indeed any character to whom smiling comes naturally, in real life Jones is warm and witty.
  • (16) Everyone is talking about Denver in week 11 as the first real test of Kansas City’s mettle, but the Bills are no pushovers.
  • (17) Despite haphazard preparations that involved a dearth of friendlies and financial constraints, Iran will be no pushovers.
  • (18) For a while, it looked as if it would be a pushover.
  • (19) People should not make the mistake of thinking him a pushover, however, as Matt Rogers, a Chu appointee at the energy department, has made clear: "He is a kind man; he is a nice man.
  • (20) Sampson was given privileged access, but he was no pushover.

Words possibly related to "pushover"