cockiness

Example Sentences

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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

Nearly two months later, Newsom’s cockiness appears misplaced.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood