cockiness
Example Sentences
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Cockiness, a persecution complex and a proudly situational relationship with the truth?
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2019
Cockiness might be fatal now: I thought of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury character B.D. and wondered hypothetically whether I should travel in a football helmet.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2016
Cockiness is also resented because it raises fear in opponents.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 12, 2014
Cockiness springs most naturally from the young, whose irrepressible energy too vividly reminds elders -- of whom there are plenty in golf -- that they are losing theirs.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 12, 2014
Cockiness was one of his sales strategies, but that arrogance sours into condescension as he goes to a work-placement center to begin his new, nonpaying job: begging for a break from people he doesn't know.
From Time • Dec. 12, 2010
