cockiness
Example Sentences
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The family came vividly alive—we sensed Augustine’s role as nurturing mother, as well as the cockiness of the older son.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Better still, Coleman finds the perfect tone to carry the musical, balancing cockiness and insecurity, loneliness and independence, and irony and sincerity.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2024
It was a mixture of cockiness and exasperation as if to say, “That’s enough. This game needs to be done.”
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024
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
Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
