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• s  marked by excessive confidence
  so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen

• I went to Wimbledon this year to watch her play, I wasn't scared before, but after watching the girls at Wimbledon I may even be overconfident.
• After he upset an overconfident Bush by 19 points in New Hampshire, it appeared that McCain might take South Carolina too, ending Bush's bid.
• The overconfident pose, the fawning lackeys, the weird eyewear that suggests that no one can speak directly to himthe North Korean leader is a poster boy for dictatorship.

• cocksure
• positive

News & Articles

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• Markets 'Overconfident' in Abenomics, Adviser Says
  Markets 'Overconfident' in Abenomics, Adviser Says
  June 7, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Ron 'Donnie Baker' Sexton brings plenty of character to Jukebox
  Donnie Baker has shaggy, 1980s hair. He wears Zubaz pants. He drinks a mixture of warm beer and Mountain Dew — a hillbilly Jagerbomb, if you will. This habit has actually given Ron Sexton a beer belly. Baker, a regular caller on the “Bob and Tom” radio show, is a character created by Sexton. The overconfident, excitable redneck — who is always telling tall tales and ending his statements with “I ...
  June 5, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star

Quotes

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• Doc Rivers in The Japan Times
  Rivers said he was "confident, but I'm not overconfident" about Pierce's and Allen's return. "We want to go after this one more time, and we have Kevin (Garnett) and Paul (Pierce) and Ray (Allen) hopefully all coming back, so why not?"
• Roy Williams in ESPN
  I've coached in games before where we beat a team easily or got killed and turned around and beat them the second time,Williams said. "I have respect for Tom. My team will not be overconfident. My team will be confident, but my team knows...
• Manmohan Singh in Washington Post
  But with many of India's 1.1 billion people being left behind by the country's lightning economic growth, Singh warned: "we must not be overconfident."