cocky

Yes, he can come across as cocky, but he's well grounded, not just by Richter, but by having his oldest brother there in the locker room with him.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

El-Sayed admits he can be cocky, and the result called for an immediate conciliatory tone to welcome skeptical Stevens voters.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026

Dix was a baseball prodigy too cocky and flashy for his own good who now coasts through life on his long-ago heroics coupled with charm and an undeserved diet of luck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Hopkins registered the trademark in 2018 and began contacting authors who had also used the descriptor — and the list was long, because the cocky, arrogant hero is a romance trope.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Has she grown cocky now that it’s been so long and I haven’t told?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

“Bricks seemed to work for a while, but cockies got too clever,” one survey respondent reported.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

“If we’re not doing it, the cockies will blast them,” Mr. White said, using a slang term for small-scale farmers.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2021

Dahlstrom is most comfortable away from the office, out in the ute, visiting cockies, tradesmen and factory managers.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'll get down among the cockies along the Lachlan, or some of these rivers," said Mitchell, throwing down his swag beneath a big tree.

From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson

He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.

From My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

If that’s not enough meta-weirdness for you, throughout the movie, Nick regularly converses with a younger, cockier version of himself, “Nicky,” who goads him to recapture his former stardom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

Despite having been one of the Endurance's cockier crew members, Ms Clague said her grandfather was a much quieter man once he came home.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022

Also: Is there anything cockier than wearing sunglasses inside a government building?

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2019

Deng and Chen tried to build their own small version of campus life, with Deng taking the cockier, worldly lead and Chen playing his sidekick.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2017

There was something so much cockier about him this year, even the way he stood and walked, like there was more weight in his gait—he never hurried anymore.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Hamlin without a doubt was the cockiest of the four championship drivers leading into Sunday, undoubtedly soaking in his self-inflicted chaos.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

Especially in recent years, as the city grapples with what often feels like an unending stream of plopped-in arrivals from New York, the country’s cockiest metropolis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

It’s remarkable that he can actually swing with that trophy around his waist, but this is AK, maybe the cockiest 24-year-old to ever wield a club.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2020

In “The Right Stuff” Tom Wolfe revealed that the seven Mercury astronauts – the cockiest, most sneeringly confident fighter pilots on the planet – were terrified all the time.

From Forbes ● Oct. 22, 2014

Usually he's the cockiest person round this building.

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb