cocksure
Example Sentences
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“I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
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
And I really do not think that America, adolescent and cocksure, a stranger to suffering and travail, an enemy of passion and sacrifice, is ready to probe into its most fundamental beliefs.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
