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overconfident

[ oh-ver-kon-fi-duhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

overconfident

/ ˌəʊvəˈkɒnfɪdənt /

First recorded in 1610–20; over- + confident

Overconfident and mistaken: that is not the stuff of which successful prime ministers are made.

We can tend to be very overconfident and blind to their lack of awareness.

In 2012, these same people came back again, as overconfident and unchastened as ever.

That Wisconsin recall offers a sobering reality check for Democrats feeling overconfident about the impact of their ground game.

The president sleepwalked through the first debate, and perhaps that caused you to get a little overconfident in the second.

Numerous incidents of a similar nature had made us overconfident.

The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.

Either someone slipped up in his briefing, or the Reds are overconfident and don't care about the rules.

We don't want him to get clawed by going forward in foolishly overconfident forays.

"The French are always something overconfident and boastful, I think," said Corinne gravely.

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