cockiness
Example Sentences
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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
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
There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 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
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