overconfident

How To Use overconfident In A Sentence

• The loss, he explains unwinkingly, was outrageous: ‘It was merely because we were so shockingly superior that we were inevitably shockingly overconfident.’
• So when South Ossetian rebels along with Russian commandos in Tskhinvali began their revolt, Putin knew this would cause Saakashvili to react overconfidently, and with great haste. KC Shoen: Our Russian Election
• He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
• And that is what makes the investigators anxious because they think he will become overconfident and slip up.
• Even after noting that overconfidence is a death sentence on this show, he nonetheless began spouting the sort of overconfident crap that the Gods of Survivor, that is, Palin's Pimp, aka Mark Burnett, always slaps down hard: We're good for a minimum two to three more Tribals. ... Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy.
• so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
• Limited participation can arise endogenously in the presence of model uncertainty, and overconfident investors enter the market differently from the rational investors.
• He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.
• A hawk hid under the potentilla bush and leaped suddenly on an overconfident prairie dog a little too far from its burrow.
• Like many overconfident, would-be sailors, he simply went overboard.