Associations to the word «Defensively»

Wiktionary

DEFENSIVELY, adverb. In a defensive manner.

Dictionary definition

DEFENSIVELY, adverb. In an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively".
DEFENSIVELY, adverb. In a defensive manner; "the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne