cockiness
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
A soldier who trained alongside him at the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, told the BBC Khalife stood out for his cockiness, arrogance and over-confidence.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
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
The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023
Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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