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
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
With Maps of the Country Through Which the Routes Pass, in the Northern, Middle, and Eastern States, a book whose title was as grand and cocksure as the New World it so thrillingly described.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
