defensively

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Adverbial defensively has 2 senses

defensively - in an apologetic and self-defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"
Derived from adjective defensive₂
defensively - 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"
Antonyms: offensively
Derived from adjective defensive₁

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