cocksure
Example Sentences
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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
Tacopina and Rocky both scoffed at the plea deal last month and remained cocksure throughout the proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
Back at the attorney’s office, I watched Gray’s family and lawyers all moved to tears by Mosby’s words—even famously cocksure defense attorney Billy Murphy!—and her audacious attempt to hold Baltimore police accountable for Gray’s death.
From Slate ● May 24, 2024
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
