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".
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.