cockily

Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, recorded in a secret cable that Andrew spoke "cockily" at the brunch with British and Canadian business people, leading a discussion that "verged on the rude".

WikiLeaks US embassy cables: as it happened Matthew Weaver 2010

Prince Andrew spoke 'cockily' at a business brunch in Kyrgyzstan, a secret embassy cable claimed Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

The Guardian World News Jonathan Glennie 2010

His indiscreet comments were detailed in a leaked US embassy cable in which he was accused of acting "cockily" by Tatania Gfoeller, the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

“I can drive in anything,” he said cockily, as he backed out of my driveway and promptly slid into the big Buick parked across the street.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011

While the suspect had been cockily polite and “helpful” all the way through, they reported back, he had obstinately refused to change his story about leaving Jesica at Stillorgan shopping centre and going straight home.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

For a working-class intellectual which was how I rather cockily fancied myself as a student to speak and understand French is to short-circuit many of the stupidities of class prejudice in the UK.

French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey 2011

Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011