cockiest

Example Sentences

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Especially in recent years, as the city grapples with what often feels like an unending stream of plopped-in arrivals from New York, the country’s cockiest metropolis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2020

It’s remarkable that he can actually swing with that trophy around his waist, but this is AK, maybe the cockiest 24-year-old to ever wield a club.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 1, 2020

In “The Right Stuff” Tom Wolfe revealed that the seven Mercury astronauts – the cockiest, most sneeringly confident fighter pilots on the planet – were terrified all the time.

From Forbes • Oct. 22, 2014

Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA The cockiest Lonnie Donegan wannabe in Nottingham tears up the roots of rock'n'roll by making like a Sun Records bluegrass balladeer appealing against an Asbo.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2013

Usually he's the cockiest person round this building.

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)