defensively
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- r in an apologetic and defensive manner
`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively - r 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
- In this frenetic capital city of 12 million people, women drivers are hardly a rarity; "this is not Saudi Arabia," many defensively point out.
- Far from seeking to create an international crisis, North Korea is acting defensively.
- At the same session, after Pandora is duly comforted, Giggy Pinimba from Brooklyn says defensively, "I get depressed around the holidays like everybody else, but I'm no fag.