Poorly informed yet overconfident of one's own knowledge; asserting incorrect facts based on scant knowledge.
Full of faith in the cause for which he was willing to die, he watched eagerly for the opportunity to turn suddenly upon hisoverconfident enemy and strike a heavy blow.
A child's trick it was, but the Southlanders are men of smooth tongue and our brothers were encumbered with the cattle and perhaps overconfident now that their faces were turned at last towards home.
The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.
This was a grand plan, and had we only carried it out fortune would have been ours, and honor as well, but we were too impatient of any delay in securing wealth and overconfident of our success and cleverness.
Rendered overconfident by long-continued success, our champion gradually permits himself to drift into a weakened physical condition.
Therefore my answer to the overconfident patient may be something like this: "Remember what I told you.
His loyalty to the Chinese government seems to have been unimpeachable, and the only point he seems to have erred in was anoverconfident belief in the strength of his position.
It came suddenly to the smartly modish, overconfident boy walking the length of the long room that the last person needed in this marvelously perfected and smooth-running organization was a somewhat awed young man named Jock McChesney.
But Machiavelli had seen too many overconfident callers.
His candidacy was premature, his backersoverconfident and indiscreet.
He was in truth a strong man, who, sufficiently mindful of his limitations in the beginning, grew by unexampled and continued success overconfident and overconscious in his own conceit.
