defensively

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Adverb
in an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,'' said Sir Cedric 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"
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