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Meanings of cocksure in English

Marked by excessive confidence.

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Having extreme self-confidence and overbearing pride.

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Examples for "arrogant"
Examples for "arrogant"
1
President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
2
He was of a feeble character, arrogant in prosperity, faint-hearted in adversity.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
3
As the Mormons increased in power, they became more self-sufficient and arrogant.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
4
As time went on Germany and Austria became more and more arrogant.
History of the World War, Vol. 3
5
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
Marriage à la mode
1
I did not, so I ignored what I considered a presumptuous question.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
2
Wearing the ring of one's better can be viewed as quite presumptuous.
The Wise Man’s Fear
3
In face of the terrible tidings, that would have been too presumptuous.
An Echo Of Antietam / 1898
4
He persisted in regarding the missionary as a presumptuous and execrated enemy.
The Phantom of the River
5
Painting and sculpture seem to me the most presumptuous of the arts.
An Ambitious Man
1
Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious.
Reuters
2
The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.
Tarzan the Untamed
3
I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
The Wise Man’s Fear
4
There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
Sergeant York And His People
5
I find the architecture pretentious, even in its present somewhat de-Romanized version.
Julian
1
He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
The Guardian
2
See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
3
I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
T. Tembarom
4
My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
Underground
5
They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
The Plastic Age
Usage of cocksure in English
1
The Senator was promptly and intensely interested in this cocksure declaration by
All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
2
At that she laughed in a kind of a friendly, cocksure way.
The Militants / Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fig...
3
He was a well-favored youth with an unlovely manner, haughty and cocksure.
Caleb's crossing
4
Be cautious always; be especially cautious when you are cocksure you're right.
The Great God Success: A Novel
5
James DeGale is as cocksure as he is buttery-smooth inside the ropes.
The Guardian
6
A short wiry man with a pugnacious face and a cocksure mustache.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
7
He didn't want the patrol to be cocksure-hewanted it to work.
Don Strong, Patrol Leader
8
I think he's altogether too cocksure, and takes too much for granted.
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; Or, the Treasure on the Floor...
9
I see you also have been doing some 'hair-trigger, steel-trap, cocksure jedgin'.
Rolf in the Woods
10
That night Blair, cocksure, had the story of my arrest in the paper.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
11
Your cocksure, peering Protestant is the dissolvent-theforce making for ruin.
Eleanor
12
You are so cocksure about the lot you can do, Captain.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
13
He was almost unrecognisable from the cocksure brigand I had watched that afternoon.
Siege of heaven
14
He looks a little cocksure when he walks, which you need to have.
The Guardian
15
We are a trifle too commercial and a trifle too cocksure.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
16
They are as cocksure and ambitious as their master ever was.
The Irish Times
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