How To Use Cocksure In A Sentence
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As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate.
Be My Enemy
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The supposedly cocksure and unshakeable defence secretary has come under pressure to resign over the photo scandal.
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It's the cocksure performance of weak-minded bullies who will be found out by the first decent team they play.
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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
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Don't be so cocksure that he will succeed.
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Padding her bosom, carrying around an effervescent cocksureness, he kicked his boots to the center of the room and whisked her up the stairs.
We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red
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He is too cocksure of himself - it is one of his weak spots as a politician.
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The film-makers are so cocksure they've already promised the actor $20 million for the sequel.
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He is too bloody cocksure about everything.
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She sounds confident, but not cocksure.
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For “democracy” or the “democratic spirit” (diabolical sense) leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first sign of criticism.
Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
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He is too bloody cocksure about everything.
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The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept.
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He over-compensates for his Napoleonic height with a cocksure manner, but the inmates have warmed to his lewd wittiness.
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Berton was a powerful personality, a cocksure businessman with a fast-talking line in hard sell.
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I was stripped of a confidence that could have almost been described as arrogant - certainly cocksure - I don't think I liked myself at all in high school.
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We were cocksure to cheese gift to panoply onwards but the tongueless overblown us from strindberg the absorptance, so we get an properly schizoid in bastnaesite.
Rational Review
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In a tenure marked by cocksureness and ineptitude, his greatest accomplishment may be inadvertently awakening a media reform movement.
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I was kind of brash and cocksure, and I didn't listen to anyone.
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On the surface he was all bluster, bravado and cocksureness.
He Knew He Was Right
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Tave said Roman told him she knew a lot of the nobility, marchionesses and 'sich'; and now Roman struts around cocksure, high and mighty as if he'd just been made
Flamsted quarries
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Perhaps there had been a shade too much cocksureness in the hakim's voice, but he acted faultlessly when he answered.
In The Time Of Light
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I don't think the guys will go in with any cocksure attitude on Sunday, even against the minor counties.
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Self-assured as opposed to unappealingly cocksure, Evolution Flight would be a towering achievement based on any criteria you chose to elect.
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We hope he would navigate between the amoral realism of some in his party and the counterproductive cocksureness of the current administration, especially in its first term.
Not in My Backyard
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The president let that slip away, deepening divisions by adopting a my-way-or-the-highway cocksureness on both domestic and foreign affairs.
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The overwhelming majesty of my cocksureness failed to persuade.
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The person praying becomes at once small and humble, which helps him to deal better with his helpless condition much more effectively than his arrogant and cocksure attitude does.
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an arrogant and cocksure materialist
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The troubles and disasters the country has met do not stem from threats by others, but from its own cocksureness and arrogance.
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David Duchovny reprises the role of Moody, the bawdy, cocksure and terminally lovesick belletrist transplanted from his native New York to Venice Beach.
Rob Fishman: Californication Season 3: Sneak Peek And Review
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During the course of the movie, Love's character slowly becomes less abrasive and cocksure and, as a handy visual aid, her dress sense shifts from sizzling peekaboo to preppy casualwear.
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His competition with the since-departed major was supportive and good-natured, a sign of maturity from an otherwise cocksure prodigy.
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Hip hop is a kingdom built on braggadocio, with swagger and cocksureness as the foundations.
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Kissing my mother and padding her bosom, carrying a banal effervescent cocksureness, he kicked his boots to the center of the room, and whisked her up the stairs.
Carolina Grüber: I
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He's handsome enough, and he's got that cocksure attitude with the posing and pouting and acting all mad.
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Now, she couldn't even remember why she was once so cocksure and confident in herself.
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She holds the stage with mesmerising presence; commanding attention with the charisma and cocksure confidence of the rock gods of old.
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It was certainly sunshine football done with a cocksure swagger of which the yellow-clad heroes from South America are renowned.
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Forgive my asking; your voice lacks something I've nearly always noticed in the English a kind of -- 'comment cela s'appelle' -- cocksureness, coming from your nation's greatest quality.
The Island Pharisees
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His cocksure attitude and swaggering womanizing make him ripe for a smack in the face.
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In moments where his air of mystery is challenged he loses that cocksureness.
How Rinse FM, the radio station behind Dizzee Rascal and Katy B, keeps it salty
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In all the calendar of "long shots," the political pull is the rangiest and most cocksure uncertainty.
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
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They show her in control of her image: a blonde by choice and, with her cocksure grin, anticipating the effect she would exert on a nation of pubescent boys - and girls, too.
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He is too bloody cocksure about everything.
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He's so arrogant, so cocksure… he eyed me up in the foyer as if I was just a slab of meat.
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The golfer was known for his aggressive style, a cocksure attitude and candid opinions of himself and others.
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He is also immature, vain, haughtily cocksure in his perception of the world and ripe for certain lessons, both emotional and intellectual.
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I suspect my problem might have been turning up with the Ripcurl bag, O'Neill boardies and somewhat cocksure Gazzaetta Della Sport t-shirt, implicitly suggesing that I had either done this before or would nail it given half the chance.
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His very cocksureness is filched from Darwin’s morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest.
The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
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This genre of music is a kingdom built on braggadocio, with swagger and cocksureness as the foundations.
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In the poultry tent bantams strutted their stuff as proudly as any cocksure pop star, while there was sheep-like following for anyone careless enough to leave a pen hurdle unclosed.
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It might be their posture, a cocksure expression, bandy legs and butter-hued dentition, or nothing at all.
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He is capable, confident, and cocksure, and perhaps most importantly, seemingly content with his chosen profession and lifestyle.
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He is too bloody cocksure about everything.
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Oh, believe me, I see it very clearly — myself in the heyday and cocksureness of youth, flinging at you, with much energy and little skill, my immature generalisations from science; and you with an elderly beneficence and tolerance, smiling shrewdly and affectionatety upon me, secure in the knowledge that sooner or later I am sure to get through with it all and join you in your broad and placid philosophy.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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He had hated the Marines' cocksure arrogance, all the more infuriating because it was so clearly justified.
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His cocksure self-belief, some might say, looks like arrogance and gets up more than a few nostrils on the grand prix circuit.
