cocksure

Example Sentences

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“I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

And it became famous for Ingle's unconventional training methods which allowed his boxers to become flamboyant and cocksure with fancy footwork.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Back at the attorney’s office, I watched Gray’s family and lawyers all moved to tears by Mosby’s words—even famously cocksure defense attorney Billy Murphy!—and her audacious attempt to hold Baltimore police accountable for Gray’s death.

From Slate • May 24, 2024

The same cocksure predictions — what Weizenbaum called “grandiose fantasies” — have been part of the AI world since its inception.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

He had a gift for sleeping, he’d boasted, smiling in that cocksure way of his.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin