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

That’s also why the cocksure predictions issuing from Davos year after year are so risibly unreliable, the vision of the future so clouded.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2024

As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

And I really do not think that America, adolescent and cocksure, a stranger to suffering and travail, an enemy of passion and sacrifice, is ready to probe into its most fundamental beliefs.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright