cockiness
Example Sentences
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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
“And a humility. We have an optimism that we’re going to do this, but not a cockiness that we can mail it in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2025
There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
He has a confidence that borders on cockiness.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023
Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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