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Recent Examples of cocky There’s also a fine array of actors here: Idris makes a fine cocky young upstart. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 June 2025 The Pacers, who are young and fast and talented and cocky and on some heater themselves, think this is their time. Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025 Ellie is a typical teen: cocky and defiant at times, painfully self-conscious at others. Noel Murray, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Stringing episodes together, screenwriter Anderson (working from a story co-created by Roman Coppola) treats Korda as a cocky survivor of fabulous riches. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for cocky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocky
Adjective
  • The wise stargazer brings warm clothes, bug spray and snacks — and takes breaks from staring at the sky every 30 minutes or so.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • For investors, is the resolve to assume tariff threats are bluffs and the impact easily handled a wise stance based on lessons learned in the April overshoot sell-off?
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • No brand should be so cocksure as to presume its products are irreplaceable.
    Cate Rubenstein, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Nayeri’s demeanor — usually cocksure — became unhinged.
    Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • One’s insolent, calling him lame and old, and the other affectedly infantile, but both are exhausting in their own way.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The government, in an insolent filing on Sunday evening, rewrote that instruction.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Moo Deng first went viral in 2024, when videos of her throwing temper tantrums, making of mess with her food, trying to bite her trainer and just overall being sassy were posted online by her zookeepers.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • While the bottle is a conversation starter, so is the wine: fresh and sassy with light baby strawberries and early-summer red fruits.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • First, there are highly vocal AI luminaires making individualized brazen predictions.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • His assassination marked a significant and brazen escalation in the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia that began in February 2022 when Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the Eastern European nation.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • Gemma reluctantly agrees to rebuild her impudent robot in a new body, and the sequel ends with an explosive showdown between Amelia and M3GAN, who nearly dies in a noble attempt to save Gemma and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • One chord appears to speak to the other, sounding almost impudent in their simplicity, equal parts ecstatic and heartbreakingly melancholic.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In a city where so many big plans have gone so badly for 30 years, San Diego residents shouldn’t just be wary when another bold proposal comes long — they should be terrified.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • And Los Angeles needs bold, systemic reform to meet the moment.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • In the closing minutes of the second episode, Jess (Megan Stalter), the brash American protagonist of Netflix’s Too Much, lies down with the mix CD her new British beau, Felix (Will Sharpe), has made for her.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
  • At the far edge of the American west, a brash adolescent came of age in a coastal community where the establishment prided itself on being antiestablishment.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025

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“Cocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocky. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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