more cocksure
Example Sentences
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As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023
You have never met a more cocksure lot than the monetary-policy clerisy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 9, 2016
He was more cocksure and conceited than ever before, and more prone to brag and bully.
From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor
These first pages bear witness both to the energy of his genius and also to its unenlightenment; he seems more ignorant and more cocksure than so great a man should be.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The less people know of a foreign nation the greater nonsense they talk in general, and the more cocksure they are about their own opinions.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
