How To Use Cocksureness In A Sentence
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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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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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In a tenure marked by cocksureness and ineptitude, his greatest accomplishment may be inadvertently awakening a media reform movement.
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On the surface he was all bluster, bravado and cocksureness.
He Knew He Was Right
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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
