He was a cocky bastard even then but we admired him for having the guts to tackle something many of us considered indefensible.

"And that cost the cocky bastard a guinea of his ill-gotten loot."

No, you big cocky bastard, now you pay for those.

They'll be right cocky bastards, thinking they know it all already.

Why would he send me an e-mail message, apart from the fact that he seems to be a cocky bastard?

He knew that in her mind she was calling him a cocky bastard.

That cocky bastard didn't like the look of you, for all his words.

I don't care, he was a cocky little bastard, anyway.

This cocky bastard would not be fit to travel when he had finished with him.