protectively
pruh tek tiv lee
- r in a protective manner
he bent protectively over the woman
- He is standing next to Pastor Christopher, whose hand rests protectively on Duch's shoulder.
- He tries to puncture the bourgeois mythor protectively askew memorythat allows France generally to act as if hardly any Frenchmen collaborated with the Germans.
- The rancher's body was huddled protectively over that of his son.