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defensively
 
Adverbial defensively has 2 senses
  1. defensively - in an apologetic and self-defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"
    Derived from adjective     defensive2
  2. 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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