Sentence examples for cocky sort from inspiring English sources

"He's a young guy with nothing to lose -- got a cocky sort of attitude.

In the 1990s their band stood for a cocky, clever sort of dissent and, as Coxon told the Observer, they did not want to say they were back until they knew what they had.

"This may sound cocky, but I sort of feel like mashups accomplished what they set out to do," says Gill. "Back 12, 14 years ago, it felt like music was still very much split off into its various genres.

The girls think that the guys from the Collegiate School are sort of cocky and arrogant because they have all these girls fawning over them.

From Withnail, to Jasper in Girls, to his quite frankly not-discussed-often-enough BBC show Posh Nosh, to Jack Hock, there's a sort of cocky Willy Wonka edge to Grant.

Axel has a sort of cocky, but fun attitude.

"It's sort of a cocky thing.

"I was sort of somewhat cocky going in".

This is still assuredly cocky, in a Marxist-determinist sort of way, but only the mistranslation is aggressive.

"Call him cocky and brash but he has the sort of exuberant talent that keeps your eyes on the screen," the New York Times said of Rooney in a 1940 review.

You're not a jerk or cocky, and people like you because you're sort of weird and charming.