cockiness

Example Sentences

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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

I was so eager and so excited to be in L.A. and I had this youthful kind of cockiness about me, to be honest.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee