cocksureness

NOUN
  1. total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant
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How To Use cocksureness In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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"
  • In a tenure marked by cocksureness and ineptitude, his greatest accomplishment may be inadvertently awakening a media reform movement.
  • On the surface he was all bluster, bravado and cocksureness. He Knew He Was Right
  • 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
  • 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
  • The president let that slip away, deepening divisions by adopting a my-way-or-the-highway cocksureness on both domestic and foreign affairs.
  • The overwhelming majesty of my cocksureness failed to persuade.
  • The troubles and disasters the country has met do not stem from threats by others, but from its own cocksureness and arrogance.
  • Hip hop is a kingdom built on braggadocio, with swagger and cocksureness as the foundations.
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