Words similar to cockiness

Example sentences for: cockiness

How can you use “cockiness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(Of course, after getting away with Kelly McGillis' flight instructor in Top Gun and the 22-year-old Nicole Kidman's brain surgeon in Days of Thunder , Bruckheimer can probably be forgiven a certain cockiness.)
"American cockiness over its display of military technology in the Gulf and Yugoslavia, and smugness over its longest post-war prosperity streak, can blind it to a need to cultivate its relations with Russia beyond promoting democratisation.
Most folks associate the risk-taking cockiness and gaiety of the Katharine-Ben-era Post with Bradlee.
It's a cute joke, but the cockiness and special pleading remind us how things have changed: In 1957, the Sharks' and Jets' cool was parodic and laughable; in the '96 version, these gangs are cool for real.