cocksure

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Of a cocksure, ambitious boy just breaking out of leading strings?

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  • He came from one of the less reputable streets of Sydney and was astoundingly simple, cocksure, egotistical and enthusiastic. —  Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
  • A more difficult customer to satisfy, a more cocksure-of-his-own-importance man he had never seen. —  Wonder Story Annual - 1950
  • The man was too cocksure, with an insolent self-confidence that was insulting to ordinary people. —  Maigret's Failure -#49- by Georges Simenon
  • A cocksure, clod-pated ingrate The wickedest man who ever lived A great gawk of a lummox. —  Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels
  • Behind that cocksure, devil-may-care attitude, he believed himself unworthy, unlovable. —  THE MISTRESS
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