How to Use cocksure in a Sentence

cocksure

adjective
Definition of cocksurenext
Synonyms for cocksurenext
  • Don’t be so cocksure that your side is telling the truth, is all.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
  • The shift has left its once cocksure traders at times reeling.
    — Emily Flitter and Kate Kelly, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Lue's cocksure certainty that the Cavs will make the playoffs doesn't look so doubt-free now.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • On many fronts, this is a generational thing and maybe the oldest and youngest among the voters are cocksure of their stances.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The Mets had resisted the idea of Harvey as anything but the cocksure superhero.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 May 2016
  • He was known among friends as cocksure and flirtatious, but also as a doting father, who fished and camped with his kids.
    — Maurice Chammah, Esquire, 22 May 2017
  • Worley is chatty and cocksure, a compact ball of energy who is quick with his smile and quicker with his mouth.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 22 Sep. 2017
  • For the cocksure slopester, practical ski pants were seemingly not an option.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The images Mueller and Rosenstein are projecting are pretty cocksure.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
  • And though the music on ye is cocksure and often dazzling, the album leaves much of West’s recent hectoring unresolved.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 4 June 2018
  • There were worried grumbles through the rumor mill that Alden Ehrenreich (who plays young Han) was struggling to nail the part of the cocksure pilot during production.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 15 May 2018
  • The story centers on William Johnson, the handsome, cocksure son of a wealthy Philadelphia shipbuilder.
    — John Wilwol, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • Tony Stark’s cocksure genius has gone from being an asset to a liability, for the character and the franchise alike.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 9 May 2018
  • There’s a joyfulness and cocksure energy in Eddie’s guitar playing that slashes through the troubling mire of 2020.
    — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • About a third of the way into the movie comes a scene in which the cocksure newsman played by Will Ferrell is flirting with the fetching and ambitious interloper played by Christina Applegate.
    — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 1 June 2017
  • At times, the Camaro is downright European in its manners, while always holding close to the surface its cocksure American roots.
    — Josh Jacquot, Car and Driver, 19 July 2017
  • Even as a youth, Mellencamp had a reputation for being petulant and cocksure.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Revered as one of the original Mercury astronauts and known for his cocksure determination and ready wit, Shepard was the first American in space and the only human to have golfed on the moon.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 22 July 1998
  • Wright’s ebullient and cocksure Jay, who grabs our interest and sympathy from the start, also reveals emotional depths.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • On that occasion, he was beaten into second place by an elegant and cocksure runner named Wilson Kipsang, who broke the world record.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The outside outrage isn’t getting any quieter, with the harshest of doubters lambasting Nagy’s play-calling, game management and a demeanor some perceive as cocksure.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Keeping with that tradition, the cocksure Willie calmly slinks into the club, acts much bigger than his schemes deserve — one involves stealing dogs, then returning them for the reward — and lords it over Benny and Iffy.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Sharp has other critics around the league; some are put off by his cocksure demeanor, and resent his habit of making bold strategic assertions without sufficient data to back them up.
    — Danny Funt, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2022
  • We are supposed to cringe when Chuck and Axe collide and speak to each other like cocksure generals preparing for battle; their swagger and hyperbole are meant to be comical.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • By Tuesday, with my cocksure prediction sitting in subscribers’ mailboxes, the network exit polls had leaked.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Han Solo as viewers met him was already a wonderfully cocksure concotion, equal parts aloof and goofy, a guy defined by both his losing streaks and his last-minute loyalties.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • After that, cocksure Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield will try his hand against the Patriots.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Everett, a fast-talking, cocksure radio host, is called in to help diagnose an electrical issue, which several people tell him is likely due to pesky squirrels chewing through the wires again.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 29 May 2020
  • The cover had already been designed, with Rickey Henderson striking his familiar, cocksure pose.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Tom Barrack snowed them, by projecting an earnestness and a cocksure confidence in his own knowingness that television finds irresistible.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021

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