overconfident
Example Sentences
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“I got overconfident a couple times, went, ‘Yep, nope, not good for me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
He is comfortably smarmy in the role of an overconfident undergrad at Vassar College who reassures everyone that he is certain to win an important fellowship for the summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
They’re all here, and they have as much overconfident swagger as a plucky young star on the Disney Channel.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ricciardi would like to see some kind of compromise, between passive investors just setting automatic investments and overconfident investors trying to do too much on their own.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
They were noisy, overconfident, emptyheaded kids of twenty-one.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
