Associations to the word «Defensively»
Noun
Adverb
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".
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