Cockily

Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, recorded in a secret cable that Andrew spoke "cockily" at the brunch with British and Canadian business people, leading a discussion that "verged on the rude". ❋ Matthew Weaver (2010)

Prince Andrew spoke 'cockily' at a business brunch in Kyrgyzstan, a secret embassy cable claimed Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA ❋ Jonathan Glennie (2010)

His indiscreet comments were detailed in a leaked US embassy cable in which he was accused of acting "cockily" by Tatania Gfoeller, the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid. ❋ Ellis Weiner (2011)

“I can drive in anything,” he said cockily, as he backed out of my driveway and promptly slid into the big Buick parked across the street. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

We were feeling cockily satisfied when that last waltzing saunter did us in. ❋ Cherise Wolas (2010)

For a working-class intellectual which was how I rather cockily fancied myself as a student to speak and understand French is to short-circuit many of the stupidities of class prejudice in the UK. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why don't you ride a real man's bike? he says, cockily, winking back at his blank-brained hopeful trophy for the night. ❋ Jason W. Stuart (2011)

But the 20 small painted and plaster-covered abstract wooden sculptures — Constructivist-inspired "toys" evoking figures, animals, trees and crude molecular models one struts cockily like a rooster — steal the show. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

From behind bars at Rikers Island he cockily said, "The only thing I'm guilty of is domestic abuse." ❋ Diane Dimond (2011)

While the suspect had been cockily polite and “helpful” all the way through, they reported back, he had obstinately refused to change his story about leaving Jesica at Stillorgan shopping centre and going straight home. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

After answering with a contemptuous "Yes, dear" when the senator calls his name, Stark cockily announces that he's effectively "privatized world peace"; when the committee demands that he share the formula for Iron Man's weaponized metal sheath, he comes back with the classic libertarian argument that the suit is really his self, and that to turn it over to the government would be tantamount either to "indentured servitude or prostitution." ❋ Unknown (2010)

He'd spent an entire off-season cockily talking up his team like James Cameron on a Skittles high at Comic-Con. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The new debt and liquidity-related inflation being unleashed in the United States, in turn, comes on top of the early 2000s global commodity inflation identified by the IMF but cockily ignored by the Bush administration up through 2008. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Emeril thinks he can turn me into one of those alpha males, cockily standing in front of the grill, deftly pushing aside pretenders to my grill throne, simply by throwing guy phrases into his book like "Oh yeah, baby," and "I'm telling you, you will be the smash, the bomb, the top dawg of the neighborhood." ❋ Unknown (2009)