Hypertext Webster Gateway: "defensively"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Defensively \De*fen"sive*ly\, adv.
On the defensive.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.