cockiness
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Better still, Coleman finds the perfect tone to carry the musical, balancing cockiness and insecurity, loneliness and independence, and irony and sincerity.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2024
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
“Oh, you’re very funny, Short. A regular riot. I thought the Hamburg incident might have knocked some of the cockiness out of you. If I were you, I’d concentrate on the job in hand.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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