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UK
/kˌɒkʃˈɔː/
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ADJECTIVE
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marked by excessive confidence
an arrogant and cocksure materialist
so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
the less he knows the more positive he gets
How To Use cocksure In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- His competition with the since-departed major was supportive and good-natured, a sign of maturity from an otherwise cocksure prodigy.
- Hip hop is a kingdom built on braggadocio, with swagger and cocksureness as the foundations.
- 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
- He's handsome enough, and he's got that cocksure attitude with the posing and pouting and acting all mad.
- Now, she couldn't even remember why she was once so cocksure and confident in herself.
- She holds the stage with mesmerising presence; commanding attention with the charisma and cocksure confidence of the rock gods of old.
- It was certainly sunshine football done with a cocksure swagger of which the yellow-clad heroes from South America are renowned.