cockiness
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
“And a humility. We have an optimism that we’re going to do this, but not a cockiness that we can mail it in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
It was a mixture of cockiness and exasperation as if to say, “That’s enough. This game needs to be done.”
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
Call it cockiness, call it a horrendous case of the big head, but there was no one else like him.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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