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Cocksureness

noun
1.
Total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant.  Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence.





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"Cocksureness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cocksureness of youth, Zura seized the domestic steering gear. Sometimes the weather was very fair and we sailed along. Often it was squally, but the crew was merry, and I was happy. I had something of my very own ...
— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay
... himself time, and have the patience to 'follow my LEVER,' the result would be a Jack Hinton Junior, with a smack of Soapey Sponge in it." The short stories are all, more or less, good, and would be still better but for a certain cocksureness about them which savours of the man in a country house who will insist on telling you a series of good stories about himself, one after the other, until the guests in the smoking-room, in sheer despair of ever getting their ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various
... I get out of making a last raid?" I demanded, with the cocksureness of youth. "There always has to be a last, ...
— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London


Words linked to "Cocksureness" :   overconfidence, cocksure, certainty


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