Associations to the word «Defensively»

Wiktionary

DEFENSIVELY, adverb. In a defensive manner.

Dictionary definition

DEFENSIVELY, adverb. In an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively".
DEFENSIVELY, adverb. 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".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King