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Meanings of self-confident in English

Showing poise and confidence in your own worth.

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Examples for "self-assured"
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The Anita Hill of today is far more self-assured and politically savvy.
The Guardian
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Victor Padilla wasn't as self-assured outside of his neighborhood or his home.
Naked Heat
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I cycle between self-assured and submissive, and China Doll reiterates this contradiction.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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Garity is cast as a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom.
Reuters
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The One Who Was First was always so completely self-assured, so positive.
The Land of Painted Caves
Usage of self-confident in English
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Working off your looks makes you the opposite of self-confident, she said.
The Guardian
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He seemed exactly like his breezy and self-confident advertisements in the Signal.
The Old Wives' Tale
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Erlendur had a sudden feeling that she was not quite so self-confident.
Voices
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In five minutes this self-confident journalist would blush for his own ignorance.
David Malcolm
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Her self-confident mien was suggestive of the conquest of many masculine hearts.
My Brilliant Career
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Never did a more gallant and self-confident little army tread the earth.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
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It may make you self-conscious, but it likewise makes you absurdly self-confident.
Island Tales / On the Makaloa Mat
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She was swiftly replaced by a self-confident former kissogram girl, Kate Howard.
The Guardian
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She was very self-confident, and had had little to do with boating.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
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The queen very well knew that, but-Gardinerwas right-shewas too self-confident.
Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel
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England has but a few more weeks of this self-confident, self-esteeming security.
The Double Traitor
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His kind is too arrogant, too self-confident to have recourse to untruth.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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Albedo did not shrug again, but his projected posture was relaxed, self-confident.
The Hyperion Cantos
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He's too absurd, and in that spirit he left me, outwardly self-confident.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
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The exhibition epitomised the new self-confident, almost arrogant optimism of Victorian Britain.
The Irish Times
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For once Richard Sutton Senior didn't look like a self-confident corporate lawyer.
The clouds beneath the sun