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

“Oh, you’re very funny, Short. A regular riot. I thought the Hamburg incident might have knocked some of the cockiness out of you. If I were you, I’d concentrate on the job in hand.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer