defensively

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• March 25. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  defensively — adverb — english

  in an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  defensively — adverb — english

  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"