Cocksure in a sentence as an adjective

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

The people who get things done in this world are often, but not always, cocksure bastards who never second-guess themselves.

Cool story, bro. Are you playing the role of the smart person or the cocksure idiot in this particular situation?

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

You see this with young, cocksure male drivers going like assholes down the highway, swerving between lanes and telling themselves they're really awesome.

Just make sure there are enough people in the know around, and remember that it takes a lot of people laughing at cocksure idiots to get them to change their minds.

A cocksure, conceited, and often insolent personSounds about right.

And furthermore, smart people may be at a major disadvantage with this game; as Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with this world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The reality is that Chinese speakers have come to expect very little from foreigners who are studying their language...and ironically this just continues the cycle, and these cocksure foreigners receive affirmation for simple, atonal phrases that native speakers must work hard to understand.

Cocksure definitions

adjective

marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

See also: overconfident positive