Crossword-Solution: COCKSURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cocksure | a. | Perfectly safe. |
| Cocksure | a. | Quite certain. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “COCKSURE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Unbearably confident | 1 answer |
| Too self-confident. | 1 answer |
| Self-confident to an offensive degree. | 1 answer |
| Intolerably confident | 1 answer |
| Insufferably confident | 1 answer |
| Arrogantly positive | 1 answer |
| Convinced, and then some | 1 answer |
| Absolutely positive. | 4 answers |
| overconfident | 7 answers |
| AN INSUFFERABLY PRECIOUS PERFORMANCE | 10 answers |
| ARROGANTLY INSOLENT | 10 answers |
| believing | 16 answers |
| Undoubted | 18 answers |
| Incontrovertible | 24 answers |
| Unquestionable | 25 answers |
| incontestable | 30 answers |
| Infallible. | 32 answers |
| Decided | 39 answers |
| Opinionated | 40 answers |
| Presumptuous | 42 answers |
| assured | 44 answers |
| assertive | 46 answers |
| Cocky? | 46 answers |
| Confident | 47 answers |
| Inevitable | 49 answers |
| dogmatic | 52 answers |
| indubitable | 53 answers |
| smug | 56 answers |
| trusting | 62 answers |
| Satisfied | 68 answers |
| Sanguine | 70 answers |
| arrogant | 78 answers |
| Secure | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COCKSURE (5)
Four years previous to the case of the Veuve Lacoste that same Orfila came into the trial of Mme Lafarge with the first use in medical jurisprudence of the Marsh test, and based on the experiment a cocksure opinion which had much to do with the condemnation of that unfortunate woman.
What are the chances, however, in spite of our apparently well-founded faith, that some bristle-headed local chemist with a fighting chin will not spring up at an arsenic-poisoning trial and, with new facts about the substance, blow to pieces the cocksure evidence of the leading expert in pathology? It may seem impossible that such a thing can ever happen again--a mistake regarding the action of arsenic on the human body.
These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
What an immense joke if Verloc had simply made fools of the whole of Europe, of the revolutionary world, of the police, of the press, and of the cocksure Professor as well.
Cocksure,” said the salesman, “I thought that I was out of geese, but before I finish you’ll find that there is still one left in my shop.
Quotes with COCKSURE (3)
I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forthright way of gazing about him in bewilderment. He hasn't the faintest clue where he is, and he aims to learn. In a couple of years, what he will have learned instead is how to fake it: he'll have the cocksure air of a squatter who has come to feel he owns the place. Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neig…
Agitation from the other side of the desk.“No — now you must take this phlegmatically. You had hoped you would qualify. You had feared you would not. Actually, both hope and fear are weaknesses. You knew you would qualify and you hesitate to admit the fact because such knowledge might stamp you as cocksure and therefore unfit. Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise. It is part of your qualification that you knew you would qualify.” Rel…
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).