Defensively

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defensively \De*fen"sive*ly\, adv.
     On the defensive.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  defensively
       adv 1: in an apologetic and self-defensive manner; "`I felt it
              better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"
       2: 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"
          [ant: {offensively}]