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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 "positive"
Examples for "positive"
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Moreover, today's positive market effects demand further qualification beyond the health crisis.
The Guardian
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However, positive results from Commerzbank gave a lift to banks across Europe.
Reuters
3
However, the reports present a very positive picture, especially at primary level.
The Irish Times
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However, analysts said it contained no new, positive developments for the industry.
The Guardian
5
Important idea number 1: Matter is made of positive and negative charges.
Wired
1
Let's hear it for overconfident teenagers trying to solve the world's problems.
The Irish Times
2
We tend to be overconfident in our ability to predict the future.
Reuters
3
I'd saved the day before, maybe often enough to make me overconfident.
Cold Days
4
Eyeing Heris, Ferris Renfrow observed, The overconfident sorcerer has become a cliché.
Surrender to the will of the night
5
The nife commander, fresh from the cocoon, was overconfident, overzealous and talkative.
Mech
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
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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
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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...
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I see you also have been doing some 'hair-trigger, steel-trap, cocksure jedgin'.
Rolf in the Woods
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That night Blair, cocksure, had the story of my arrest in the paper.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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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
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He was almost unrecognisable from the cocksure brigand I had watched that afternoon.
Siege of heaven
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He looks a little cocksure when he walks, which you need to have.
The Guardian
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We are a trifle too commercial and a trifle too cocksure.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
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They are as cocksure and ambitious as their master ever was.
The Irish Times
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Cocksure through the time
Cocksure across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common