cocksure
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Burdened by unquenchable ambition, cocksure confidence and immeasurable talent, Whistler was in many ways an outlier of his age, with an inside track to 20th-century modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
As she read her statement in court, gone was the cocksure grin, replaced by sobbing.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
The moment we walked out of the classroom, his cocksure veneer, the spit and polish, would return.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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