Usually means: Arrogantly confident in an overbearing way.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. cockily: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cockily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cockily: Vocabulary.com
  5. cockily: Wordnik
  6. cockily: Wiktionary
  7. cockily: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cockily: Dictionary.com
  9. cockily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cockily: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cockily: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a cocky manner.

Similar:
cocksurely, cockeyedly, boastfully, pridefully, coyishly, arrogantly, cockneyishly, vaingloriously, self-possessedly, overconfidently, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, meekly, unassumingly

Types:
arrogantly, overconfidently, presumptuously, smugly, more...



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Similar:
cocksurely, cockeyedly, boastfully, pridefully, coyishly, arrogantly, cockneyishly, vaingloriously, self-possessedly, overconfidently, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, meekly, unassumingly

Types:
arrogantly, overconfidently, presumptuously, smugly, more...



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