self-confident
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The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Where her Kayla is brash, entitled and self-confident to a fault, Jess is needy, full of second thoughts and self-doubts, even as she projects a kind of frantic cheerfulness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
In private I found him self-confident to the point of arrogance, convinced he was the all-knowing spider at the heart of the Middle East web, tracking his enemies' malign intentions and ready to strike.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.
From Slate • Sep. 2, 2024
I had learned to be self-confident as a Marine, to believe that I could succeed even in the hardest battle.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
Vocabulary lists containing self-confident
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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Ten Most Relevant Words: War and Peace, Chapters 1&2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 5)
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