cocksure betydelse and definition

Exempel på cocksure

• We have to put over to the public that scientists are not cocksure or bombastic and do not pretend to know everything.

• I think it will be wise to try this big experiment out before being too cocksure that you can repeat it elsewhere.

• It was not a question of being cocksure.

• I defy anyone to be cocksure about it.

• Some gentlemen associated with our defence organisation are so cocksure of everything.

• It is the ill-thought out and over-complicated scheme of a cocksure and inexperienced administrator.

• It might be more important if they were actually cocksure of the direction in which we were going, but they cannot be.

• We must not expect cocksure youth before they are hurt to seek advice.