cockiness
Example Sentences
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The family came vividly alive—we sensed Augustine’s role as nurturing mother, as well as the cockiness of the older son.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Natural talent allied with the cockiness that comes with knowing you are more gifted than your rivals made him an irresistible force.
From BBC • May 13, 2024
The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023
I was so eager and so excited to be in L.A. and I had this youthful kind of cockiness about me, to be honest.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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