Definition Of cocksure
presumptuously or arrogantly confident.
I was stripped of a confidence that could have almost been described as arrogant - certainly cocksure - I don't think I liked myself at all in high school.
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Don't underestimate the broncolike ability of the English language to throw anyone who leaps cocksurely into the saddle.
He had hated the Marines' cocksure arrogance, all the more infuriating because it was so clearly justified.
He is also immature, vain, haughtily cocksure in his perception of the world and ripe for certain lessons, both emotional and intellectual.
He is capable, confident, and cocksure , and perhaps most importantly, seemingly content with his chosen profession and lifestyle.
He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality and his self-interest are crudely identical.
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