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Meanings of cockiness in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "forwardness"
Examples for "forwardness"
1
She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech.
2
The maize granary at Parramatta was also in a state of forwardness.
3
He thereupon privately chid his wife for her forwardness in the matter.
4
The treaty for that purpose is in greater forwardness than you imagine.
5
Tsz-lu has forwardness enough for them both; therefore I hold him back.
1
Deep down she'd begun to grow tired of Molly's smugness and pushiness.
2
The dining room had a calm, relaxed atmosphere without a hint of pushiness.
3
Right now, their fractious pushiness has a certain schoolyard charm.
4
I'm just looking, I said, flustered by his pushiness.
5
He was, as ever, courteous and attentive, but there was no new possessiveness or pushiness.
1
He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
2
Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.
3
But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
4
He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
5
Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.
Usage of cockiness in inglês
1
No amount of greatness can make me understand that level of cockiness.
2
Probably not arrogance or cockiness; he hadn't struck her as the type.
3
I want to cripple his cockiness with the palm of my hand.
4
The cockiness of artists is enough to take away a man's breath.
5
The cockiness. An impatient hand gesture encompassed him from head to toe.
6
Known for his confidence and cockiness, briefly he too thought it was over.
7
Confidence has not been in short supply, edging towards cockiness upon first glance.
8
That seems to show some determination, I say -cockiness even.
9
There's a self-satisfied smugness in his voice, the cockiness of youth.
10
Spare everyone the cockiness-whenclimbers like Adam Ondra exist, we are all humbled.
11
Dick Keaton seemed to have some trouble returning to his usual blasé cockiness.
12
He smiled at the three men and let a little more cockiness show.
13
That degree of cockiness was going to get her killed someday.
14
Eric cleared his throat and recovered a little of his cockiness.
15
Well, according to new research highlighted by the New Scientist magazine, cockiness pays off.
16
In retrospect, he cringes at his initial cockiness: I remember my first screen test.
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português
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United States of America
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