overconfident
Example Sentences
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"Damon's Odysseus is stubborn, overconfident and sacrilegious, but doesn't bear that much resemblance to the conniving, hypocritical egotist of lore who fretted over his wife's fidelity," she noted.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
They’re all here, and they have as much overconfident swagger as a plucky young star on the Disney Channel.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ricciardi would like to see some kind of compromise, between passive investors just setting automatic investments and overconfident investors trying to do too much on their own.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
Kapralyk praised those who sign up to fight but worried that many, like Horbenko, were overconfident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Would all that admiration eventually have made me overconfident?
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
