Thesaurus / cocky
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
It’s Bugs Bunny, in fact, who seems to channel Gashouse Gang star pitcher Dizzy Dean, with his cocky persona and homespun personality.
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Where are you going to, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles?
Peter and Prince were the dearest dogs, and Cocky was a parrot that could say the most amusing things.
GREYFRIARS BOBBYELEANOR ATKINSON
I got to know of this affair through Robbins' backing up of Cocky, and telling Urquhart that nobody was afraid of him.
A HOLIDAY IN BED AND OTHER SKETCHESJ. M. BARRIE
“Cocky,” he said bravely, without a quiver of fear or flight, when Michael had charged upon him at sight to destroy him.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON
So Kwaque remained in the two rooms, cooking and housekeeping for his master and caring for Michael and Cocky.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON
Never removing its eyes from Cocky, the cat advanced slowly until it paused not six feet away.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON
The gutter-cat prepared and sprang with sudden decision, landing where Cocky had perched the fraction of a second before.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON
Nor was there absent from the flashing visions of his consciousness the images and memories of Kwaque and Cocky.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON
Cocky knew danger at the first glimpse—danger to the uttermost of violent death.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON
WORDS RELATED TO COCKY
- adamant
- arbitrary
- assertive
- biased
- bigoted
- bossy
- bullheaded
- cocksure
- cocky
- conceited
- dictatorial
- doctrinaire
- dogmatic
- hard-line
- high-handed
- inflexible
- intransigent
- locked in
- obdurate
- obstinate
- one-sided
- oracular
- overbearing
- pigheaded
- positive
- pragmatic
- pragmatical
- prejudiced
- self-assertive
- set in stone
- set-on
- single-minded
- stubborn
- tilted
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- weighted
- ascendant
- autocratic
- bossy
- cavalier
- cocky
- despotic
- dictatorial
- disdainful
- dogmatic
- egotistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperative
- imperial
- imperious
- insolent
- magisterial
- officious
- oppressive
- overweening
- paramount
- peremptory
- predominant
- preponderant
- prevalent
- proud
- regnant
- sniffy
- snotty
- sovereign
- stuffy
- supercilious
- superior
- tyrannical
- uppity
- bloated
- boastful
- cavalier
- cocky
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- huffy
- imperious
- insolent
- lofty
- narcissistic
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-respecting
- self-satisfied
- sniffy
- snobbish
- snooty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- vain
- vainglorious
- bloated
- boastful
- cavalier
- cocky
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- huffy
- imperious
- insolent
- lofty
- narcissistic
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-satisfied
- sniffy
- snobbish
- snooty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- vain
- vainglorious
- bloated
- boastful
- cavalier
- cocky
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- huffy
- imperious
- insolent
- lofty
- narcissistic
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-satisfied
- sniffy
- snobbish
- snooty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- vain
- vainglorious
- bloated
- boastful
- cavalier
- cocky
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- huffy
- imperious
- insolent
- lofty
- narcissistic
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-satisfied
- sniffy
- snobbish
- snooty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- vain
- vainglorious
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