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
“And a humility. We have an optimism that we’re going to do this, but not a cockiness that we can mail it in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2025
A soldier who trained alongside him at the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, told the BBC Khalife stood out for his cockiness, arrogance and over-confidence.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 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
