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

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

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

Here he is displaying all these qualities in a concentrated burst of glib, cocksure simplemindedness during a July 19, 2022, appearance on C-SPAN:

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

He had a gift for sleeping, he’d boasted, smiling in that cocksure way of his.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin