cocksure
Example Sentences
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“I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
And it became famous for Ingle's unconventional training methods which allowed his boxers to become flamboyant and cocksure with fancy footwork.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
In January, the cocksure governor told Times reporter Taryn Luna in an interview: “I think it’s going to win overwhelmingly. Period. Full stop.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
With Maps of the Country Through Which the Routes Pass, in the Northern, Middle, and Eastern States, a book whose title was as grand and cocksure as the New World it so thrillingly described.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
