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Meanings of cocksure in inglés

Marked by excessive confidence.

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Having extreme self-confidence and overbearing pride.

Usage of cocksure in inglés
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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...
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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
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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United Kingdom
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