How To Use Cocky In A Sentence

They will not be taken into account, but the poor old cocky will have to pay the flatulence tax.
When one slightly cocky young saxophonist announced the title of the song he intended to play, he was nonplussed when Arriale asked him if he knew the lyrics.
Burris was cocky from the very beginning, he said 'it was his RIGHT' to become senator ... Senate Ethics Committee admonishes Burris
The band's R&B dalliances push the song 'n' the band forward from simple slash 'n' burn to a cocky swagger.
Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.

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Maybe he wasn't really that arrogant, cocky egomaniac that he pretended to be.
He's a jackass with a cocky attitude, and he's the reason why you and I have barely seen each other over the last month.
The rubble had hardly stopped vibrating in Iraq when our cocky Commander-in-Chief -- himself an "undistinguished" former Air National Guard pilot -- shamelessly played dress-up in a navy flight suit to declare "mission accomplished" in Iraq. The Excuses Administration
In victory, they must hold on to at least a scintilla of humility, lest they get too cocky - and ripe for a takedown.
United weren't creating much but they were cocky and they were getting on the ball and dropping it into areas where something could happen.
Jensen Ackles brings a suitable cocky menace to the title villain, but he too sounds a bit like a Will Friedle, who played a protege of the elder Bruce Wayne in the futuristic Batman Beyond. Scott Mendelson: Blu Ray Review: Batman: Under the Hood (2010)
When Cocky, balanced on one leg, the other leg in the air as the foot of it held the scruff of Michael's neck, leaned to Michael's ear and wheedled, Michael could only lay down silkily the bristly hair-waves of his neck, and with silly half-idiotic eyes of bliss agree to whatever was Cocky's will or whimsey so delivered. CHAPTER XI
He is so convincingly cocky you want to slap him for being such a rogue.
It was amazing how vital and witty and energetic and downright cocky he was.
The second cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker I sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.
A lot of people are very cocky and brash in this industry and there were quite a few walking around before the exam as if they'd already passed.
Either a quintessential cult record or another cocky slice of childish bombast, the CD is still a more personal confession than many of its posey peers.
He is a cocky creature who chomps a carrot the way W. C. Fields bit into his cigars: confidently.
If you can believe it, Obama adulator Andrew Sullivan recently suggested that the Barack Obama campaign is "far too cocky for its own good. Hubris Gets in the Way of Unity - Barack Forgets Hillary (Video)
And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called ‘Mint bars’ and ‘Stockmen's bars,’ silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs.
Catch ya later. andrea Says: mmt, fed was uncharacteristically cocky (but in a good way) in his semi final presser. if you compare the AO semi final presser to the FO where he met soderling or even wimby when he met roddick, he wasn't going on about how 'those guys don't have much of a chance cos they're playing me' and that kind of attitude. during the other GS's he said the usual stuff 'gonna be a tough match' 'give them credit' 'don't underestimate'. he was definitely more fired up and letting some zingers fly this time around compared to the usual stuff. of course, the term cocky can be seen as a negative and in the end, it wasn't negative at all and he lived up to all his comments. he's just usually not that fired up vocally before a final. but if i had been playing like he had been, heck, i would've been saying the same things! Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News
A troika of small boys, cocky and nervous proto-new Russians, lean over the rusting barbed wire and drool gobbets of spit onto his head.
He made it a point to identify all of them, receiving, while he did so, scowls and mutterings, and reciprocating with cocky bullyings and threatenings. CHAPTER III
A guy who installs underbody neons and drives around with his 15’ subwoofer pounding 24/7 is probably overly self-assured and cocky, not to mention compensating for his inadequate manhood.
But I developed a cocky persona to distance ourselves from the drippy bands of the time.
Tom Cruise is famous for his lady-killer grin and cocky demeanor.
No one had his look, his air of total confidence and that cocky strut.
It is good to walk in with confidence and a friendly smile, but not be overly confident and cocky!
The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept.
It's still tough to admit that I'm self-published, despite the fact that the publishing world is now a Wild West of rogue indie presses and bowlegged cocky ebook publishers firing their Twitterfeeds in every direction. Holly Robinson: Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin?
They are confident after a record run of nine successive wins, yet not cocky because they know the ultimate test has still to be set.
The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour. Waverley
He is a cocky creature who chomps a carrot the way W. C. Fields bit into his cigars: confidently.
Albert Finney is the cocky, belligerent antihero of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, scripted by Alan Sillitoe from his novel: a truculent toolmaker with an off-duty taste for fine suitings.
They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent.
It reflected the cocky, swaggering, rough-tough cowboy image of someone who likes to playact at being a "real man. Robert S. McElvaine: "Bring 'Em On!" - The Fifth Anniversary of Bush's Declaration of Indecency
He was a completely cocky and reckless blabbermouth, but the Galus should have kept him anyways. 'Survivor: Samoa': Recapping the recap! | EW.com
The wee, barrel-chested midfielder with the cocky gait is as influential now as he was when he arrived in Glasgow.
He's witty and very cocky, but the cockiness is the unannoying kind you might admire. Esquire.com Article Feed
The cocky kid from the public courts of Los Angeles has blossomed into a global superstar, with a personality as rich as her bank balance.
He's cocky and egotistical and it's near impossible to get a word in edgeways.
The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie’s little parlour. Waverley
Sitting on one of the stonework terraces of the ramshackle Royal Caribbean Hotel, Lawson eyed a cocky little stinkpot chugging up toward Coastown under big mackerel clouds. The Season of the Machete
a very zealous friend to Government --- The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour. The Waverley
Do every workout conservatively, but with a cocky attitude.
Teddy boys, perhaps, or punks, but there was always something silly and peacocky about them, which isn't something you can say about the skins, whose look was built for what used to be called bovver. Alexis Petridis: Skinhead style
The eyes brooded on Cocky, and the entire body was still save for the long tail, which lashed from one side to the other and back again in an abrupt, angry, but monotonous manner. CHAPTER XX
` ` We knew this was the kind of game we couldn't go in cocky, '' he said. USATODAY.com - College Football - N. Colorado vs. Hawaii
Another self portrait of a cocky young man.
This kind of surprising, cocky offensive defence goes over well, especially here.
It was unsuitable for children, Disney concluded: Pinocchio was too cocky, too much of a wiseguy, and too puppetlike to be sympathetic. Slate Articles
He is a confident lad, cocky like most of those who can turn their hand to genius, but nonetheless likeable for it.
His cocky and bossy attitude was not one she liked, but she did go over for Rolandon's sake.
He was nervous and cocky at our briefing, the dashing leader of a combat mission to the dreaded Ia Drang.
He may be mouthy, cocky, forgetful etc, but they are all faults I can see in myself!
a very cocky young man
“cockyleeky,” a cock stewed with leeks, which merited high praise. The Underground City
They argued windily with him, and he was cocky, and enjoyed the spectacle of his interesting martyrdom. Babbit
He was nervous and cocky at our briefing, the dashing leader of a combat mission to the dreaded Ia Drang.
Tom Cruise is famous for his lady-killer grin and cocky demeanor.
an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin
Day of the Dead CraftsCo-authored by Jerry Vigil We love local santero Jerry Vigil, having bestowed a previous Best of Denver award on him for his cocky Colorado Rockies muerto, a traditional bare-bones Day of the Dead calavera dressed up in a Rockies uniform. Westword | Complete Issue
There are plenty of you but don't get cocky - if one of you falters we'll lose our hold.
He is justifiably proud of his work all these years later, but he never comes off as cocky or arrogant.
It was the same with the "cockyleeky," a cock stewed with leeks, which merited high praise. The Underground City
In the first three years of his career, he was sharp-tongued, cocky and bullheaded, and he got ripped for it.
I am very confident but I wouldn't say I was cocky or anything like that.
For me they are too brash, too cocky, too shallow and too plentiful.
They sat on the beach at Cape May, New Jersey, back to back, Lindy’s long, white-blond hair wrapped around her by the wind, her expression cocky, sassy. Moments in Time
If it weren't for my damned ankle, I tell you, I'd have been making out with every cocky boozehound on the eastern seaboard.
A mainstay of the Celtic team, he expects his absence to weaken their midfield but is not getting too cocky.
A cocky, selfish veteran who loves nothing but his AK-47, Sacha is at home in the cynical ambience of combat.
He was confident but not cocky and very likable, in a puppy dog sort of way.
We won't give that number on it but we have terrific commitments from retailers for the flow on water bottle much more than we would have expected and some very, very unique products. its also, its not only water bottle its also what you call cocky months which are traveling mugs. Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
From this opening we learn that Bobby is intense and serious, Ricky is a cocky bigmouth who suffers for his ego, both are pathetic and antagonistic to each other, and they know how to take quite a beating.
A cocky, selfish veteran who loves nothing but his AK-47, Sacha is at home in the cynical ambience of combat.
Her run had slowed into a cocky strut.
He also has been called cocky, and some question his amateur eligibility. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Their office looked like the Ritz and their salesman – his name escapes me while I scream some more – their saleman was glib and self-assured and just a little cocky. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
It was getting towards the end of the day and I was yacking to a cocky on the last call.
The usually cocky Duralt was somber and, wearing a black tunic, stepped forward and lifted the falk-horn to his lips. Darksong Rising
He was cocky and had pedigree but there was an underlying suspicion within the county that he might lack the mentality to match his ability.
Campese was asked how it felt to be marking Wilson in his first ever Test, to which the cocky Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He was now a cocky Harvard graduate, playing off his true-life college accomplishments.
He felt cocky when he left the briefing, taking the nonpsychiatric reports under his arm, promising to report for a second confab this afternoon at City Hall. The Big Nowhere
When Tobin cruelly breaks her heart that very same night, the lonely girl peeking out from Sofia's shell retreats, and she becomes flippant and cocky once more. Archive 2008-09-01
The general seemed altogether too cocky.
I don't like our monitor; he's far too cocky.
They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent.
Emily let her shoulders relax and gave a cocky half-smile, and sauntered into the classroom. Odd Girl In
I suspect you won't believe this, but neither your leftwing science nor your cocky tone carries real weight when your speech is so consistently interlarded with these elementary blunders. Rabett Run
So, too, does Karlsson, who is so sure of himself that he has been described as "cocky. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
His flow displays the effect of too many blunts, but also a cocky confidence that augments his cutting lyrics.
One does have to be obsessive with the little pieces and the instructions - my biggest pitfall is that I have a pretty good sense of how things fit together and I get cocky. No more modular furniture, ever! A photo essay in real time
Never get too comfortable or too cocky, every golfer is advised, because that's when the game will take a large bite out of your ego.
I spoke to him last night to wish him well, and he was confident without being cocky about it, which is always good.
Roosters are defined as boastful, cocky, hard-working and flashy ding! ding! slide-whistle! ding! Archive 2005-02-01
And headlining at midnight, the cocky and excellent Thee Satisfaction with a new batch of tom-tom computer beats. Last Night « PubliCola
-- The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
No one had his look, his air of total confidence and that cocky strut.
For me, Australians are too brash, too cocky, too shallow and too plentiful.
Then what's the good of gettin 'cocky and calling it scarlet? Page 7
He speaks not in the level, sturdy bureaucratese that we associate with law enforcement but in the cocky, profanity-laden patois of the corner kingpin.
Upbeat but not cocky, he was oblivious to his prospects of leading an overall majority government.
But there are fissures in the cocky exterior that occasionally reveal a rage and a wretchedness that seems to border on despair.
Judging from that glance up his shorts (which I only reran four times to get the quotes right), Marty is not "too cocky," although his overconfidence is well endowed. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
By contrast, two of Toronto's most recognizable male sommeliers can fairly be described as showmen - flamboyant in dress and cocky in attitude. Thestar.com - Home Page
But this stock theft was not simply a case of nicking some local cocky's loose calf.
Just as they are now asking if Obama is acting too cocky or is "overstepping" when he hasn't yet been elected (a question they never asked when John McCain met with the same leaders and traveled a similar path), they attributed to Hillary Clinton the sentiment that there should be a "coronation" last fall when she broke the 50 percent mark with Democratic voters in the Gallup polls. Drew Westen: How Should Journalists Cover a Charismatic Candidate? When the Subjective is Objective
Another self portrait of a cocky young man.
While the actor is confident and cocky, he also has a kind of sheepishness that stops him being just another action star.
Million Dollar Listing keeps up Josh, Chad's contrived conflict, awkward set-ups as Madison comes out Meghan, Cheyne cocky ( "we're the best team ever"); were 10 minutes ahead of Sam, Dan, who explain blurring, are okay with edit CBS 'pap smear gift PSA has versions for Christmas, Hanukkah, which says "schmear Reality blurred
After that, the Russian was as sure as ever and as stylish and cocky as Vaclav Nijinsky, the revolutionary ballet dancer his free skate is homage to. USATODAY.com - Liashenko, Plushenko recover to win Cup of Russia

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