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

They misquoted him to his face, misrepresented his work, and spouted cocksure inanities showing with every word that, scientifically speaking, they have no idea what they’re talking about.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

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