'cocksure' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is overly confident or arrogant in their own abilities, often without realizing the implications of their actions. For example: "James' cocksure attitude was quickly put to the test when he stumbled on the first question of the job interview."
By contrast, the Marseillais think of themselves as witty, cocksure characters whose mission in life is to cut through bullshit.
He was too hard to place socially, too religious, too damn cocksure.
Matteo Arpe, its chief executive, is young and cocksure; Cesare Geronzi, its chairman, old and calculating.
MALCOLM Gladwell has written a piece (Cocksure) in the latest issue of the New Yorker on the role of overconfidence in the financial crisis.
Bibi says no to America's nuclear deal with Iran, no to halting settlements and, in effect, no to a Palestinian state.Articulate and cocksure, Mr Netanyahu for his part sees himself a bit like Winston Churchill, a voice in the wilderness warning of threats that others prefer to ignore, and perhaps a saviour, too.
While brilliant, cocksure and a good speaker of English, he smacks of the same "we-know-what's-good-for-you" aristocratic leadership that doomed the EU constitution in the first place.
Soon after sharing his opinion on Mr Melia, he tweeted one of Bertrand Russell's best-known quotes: "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt".
But many others are put off by Google's cocksure assertion of its own holiness, as if it merited unquestioning trust.
Cisco, the router company, is ageing gracefully in an unexciting market; Cisco, the cocksure attacker of new markets, is discovering that lots of muscular lads are there already.
The best fund managers are arrogant, competitive and cocksure, and they rarely set much store by other people's opinions.
The history of oil is full of tough, cocksure men who are certain they have the future right and damn the rest.
