cockiness

Example Sentences

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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 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

Call it cockiness, call it a horrendous case of the big head, but there was no one else like him.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger