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defensively

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 in an apologetic and defensive manner
    “`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 defensivamente defensively