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
Natural talent allied with the cockiness that comes with knowing you are more gifted than your rivals made him an irresistible force.
From BBC • May 13, 2024
The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023
The cockiness that Frankie was known for and that Diana once found fascinating—until she realized he wasn’t as confident as he pretended to be—was gone.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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