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defensively 
(TTS Sound)
(TTS Sound)Overview of adv defensively
The adv defensively has 2 senses
- defensively -- (in an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively")
- 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")