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
Neeson plays Frank’s son, Frank Drebin Jr., who inherited his dad’s job as a cocksure Los Angeles cop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
He had a gift for sleeping, he’d boasted, smiling in that cocksure way of his.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
