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cocksure
[ kok-shoor, -shur ]
adjective
- perfectly sure or certain; completely confident in one's own mind:
She was cocksure that she was able to do the job better than anyone else.
Synonyms: , ,
- too certain; overconfident:
He was so cocksure he would win the election that he didn't even bother to campaign.
- Obsolete. perfectly secure or safe.
cocksure
/ ËŒkÉ’kˈʃʊə; -ËˆÊƒÉ”Ë /
adjective
- overconfident; arrogant
Derived Forms
- ËŒ³¦´Ç³¦°ìˈ²õ³Ü°ù±ð±ô²â, adverb
- ËŒ³¦´Ç³¦°ìˈ²õ³Ü°ù±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦´Ç³¦°ìs³Ü°ù±ðl²â adverb
- ³¦´Ç³¦°ìs³Ü°ù±ðn±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cocksure1
Example Sentences
They talk with cocksure confidence about the virtues of clearing forest floors, moving water hundreds of miles to get to the fire zone, to “crazy woke left†coastal policies, and on and on.
Tacopina and Rocky both scoffed at the plea deal last month and remained cocksure throughout the proceedings.
Nevertheless, the GOP report asserts with cocksure confidence that “the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab leak hypothesis.â€
The potential for damagingly inaccurate outputs is heightened by AI bots’ natural language capabilities, with which they offer even absurdly inaccurate answers with convincingly cocksure elan.
About three months after he offered that cocksure assurance, the Justice Department filed a second lawsuit alleging that Live Nation had been consistently violating the consent decree.
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