defensively   (TTS Sound)

The defensively has 2 Senses.

• defensively
• in an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"
• 弁解的で防衛的な態度で

• defensively
• 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"
• 防衛的な方法で