Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With self-confidence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
self-confident manner
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Examples
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Covered in a blanket of thick, creamy chocolate, the self-confidently named cake's airy layers of crispy meringue and smooth mousse provide the perfect combination of textures though they also make cutting messy.
News You Can Eat 2011
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In real life encounters, similar words and actions will stimulate our loved one to speak and act self-confidently.
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The problem outlined by you is interesting and I wouldn't be so rash in concluisions you have made so self-confidently.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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To the ill-considered hopes of the last two centuries, which have reduced us to insignificance and brought us to the brink of nuclear and non-nuclear death, we can propose only a determined quest for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently spurned.
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Obama must continue to appeal proudly and self-confidently to progressive values.
Robert Creamer: Ten Key Steps to Put Obama Over the Top In November 2008
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On the morning of September 22, 1980, the oil, finance, and foreign ministers of the OPEC nations self-confidently assembled in the Hapsburg Palace in Vienna to continue planning for the Baghdad celebration.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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On the morning of September 22, 1980, the oil, finance, and foreign ministers of the OPEC nations self-confidently assembled in the Hapsburg Palace in Vienna to continue planning for the Baghdad celebration.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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No less puzzling was the way in which some of my new classmates jumped self-confidently into the fray, talking back to he professors as if the tangled complexity of legal doctrine were second nature to them.
Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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The youth smiled as one possessing power — self-confidently and languidly; a magnificent wreath of flowers rested lightly on his shining tresses, almost touching his velvety eyebrows.
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Far from trying to repress minority ethnic groups or to erase their collective cultural memories, by the 1960s Tito encouraged Muslims, Macedonians, and other minorities to self-confidently promote and celebrate their individual histories and national identities.
The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006
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