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Meaning of defensively


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  defensively
      adv 1: in an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better
             you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"
      2: 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"
         [ant: {offensively}]


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