cockiness
Example Sentences
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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Natural talent allied with the cockiness that comes with knowing you are more gifted than your rivals made him an irresistible force.
From BBC • May 13, 2024
Nearly two months later, Newsom’s cockiness appears misplaced.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
With the passion and cockiness of youth, Virgil at 20-something regards “these bitter, hard, close-to-dead people” with contempt, puzzlement and the certainty of escaping a similar fate.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2024
Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
