cockiness

Example Sentences

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The family came vividly alive—we sensed Augustine’s role as nurturing mother, as well as the cockiness of the older son.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

“And a humility. We have an optimism that we’re going to do this, but not a cockiness that we can mail it in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2025

There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

With the passion and cockiness of youth, Virgil at 20-something regards “these bitter, hard, close-to-dead people” with contempt, puzzlement and the certainty of escaping a similar fate.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2024

The cockiness that Frankie was known for and that Diana once found fascinating—until she realized he wasn’t as confident as he pretended to be—was gone.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau