Offensive boldness and assertiveness.
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Examples for "cockiness "
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.
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.
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.
6 The Inquiries are at an end, yet nothing is in more forwardness .
7 Mr. Chickering was noted for his simplicity and straight - forwardness in business transactions.
8 The manners of these children are equally removed from shyness and forwardness .
9 Its spirit, invention, volubility of tongue, and forwardness in action, are unbounded.
10 No forwardness , though, no assumption, yet entire freedom from awkwardness or embarrassment.
11 The princess stared at her daughter in the utmost astonishment at her forwardness .
12 Thence to the Dockeyard, and there saw the new ship in great forwardness .
13 In due time, consequently, the Turkish dresses were in great forwardness .
14 His activity in doing good is not seldom ascribed to forwardness .
15 He was an honest enough fellow, but fell in readily with her forwardness .
16 The lightness and understatement of oak is brilliantly balanced with forwardness of fruit.
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