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
The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023
I was so eager and so excited to be in L.A. and I had this youthful kind of cockiness about me, to be honest.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023
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
