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
Back at the attorney’s office, I watched Gray’s family and lawyers all moved to tears by Mosby’s words—even famously cocksure defense attorney Billy Murphy!—and her audacious attempt to hold Baltimore police accountable for Gray’s death.
From Slate ● May 24, 2024
They misquoted him to his face, misrepresented his work, and spouted cocksure inanities showing with every word that, scientifically speaking, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
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
