How To Use cockiness In A Sentence
- Maybe cockiness isenough to win this tournament. Times, Sunday Times
- I think if they were casting an actor as this version of Aquaman no one could convey that kind of cockiness and bluster better than Bruce Campbell based on watching the last two seasons of Burn Notice. Aquaman on TV!
- But the surgeon was confident to the point of cockiness. Times, Sunday Times
- As for myself, my uncle (as arrogant as they came) had insisted that I learn humility first, second and third, and had refused to let me near his furnace until I'd shed every sign of what he called 'cockiness'. Shattered
- The music was what counted but the cockiness, the combination of arrogance and provocation, the sheer effrontery was thrilling to witness.
- He is intensely irritating, with a cockiness untempered by charisma and exacerbated by a grating accent.
- He is confident, supremely so, but stays the right side of cockiness. Times, Sunday Times
- You've got to love his cockiness, especially when there's so little basis for it: In Case You Didn't Know is an unapologetically lightweight product by a chappie born to be labelled "cheeky", and that's about the size of it. Olly Murs: In Case You Didn't Know – review
- The coming-of-age comedy, set in the mid-1990s, cheerfully captures those late adolescent years when youthful cockiness gives way painfully to adult responsibilities.
- The cockiness and latent volatility of his off-screen persona is sadly absent.