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Defensively Pronunciation

Pronounce Defensively as D EH F EH N S IY V EH L Y.

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    Defensively phonetic transcription:

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    • Traditional IPA representation of defensively: /dɛfɛnsɪvɛlj/
    • Modern IPA representation of defensively: /dɛfɛnsɪvɛlʌ/

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    List of meaning for defensively

    defensively(adverb)

    in an apologetic and defensive manner

    "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"

    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"

    intended to resist or prevent attack or aggression

    a defensive alliance among the small nations against the aggressors

    a position of readiness to oppose actual or expected attack

    their unexpectedly harsh words put him on the defensive

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term defensively

    We're fighting this fire defensively to keep it contained to this tank.

    – Alice Richardson

    We did a great job defensively of being physical with them, we had all five guys in and we were rotating out, we had each other's backs.

    – Brook Lopez

    They're very good defensively and now they've started to bring an attack to their game, it's about having this team make its own history like the 1999 team did and if they can upset the USA... they will make history.

    – Tony DiCicco

    She swung away. She played extremely aggressive. I was playing a little bit too defensively for what I should have been doing. She was there to win it and she did.

    – Maria Sharapova

    I just think we have to do a better job all together, i thought we were very stagnant offensively, and we were better defensively doing what we practice every day.

    – Alvin Gentry

    They had very good confidence shooting the ball, they must have had a really had a good talk or something before the game because everybody was shooting. For us defensively and offensively we didn't execute in anything. It's really disappointing. Because we've got to the point where we should be able to execute simple things and we're not doing that at all. We're close but far at the same time.

    – Chris Bosh

    They're a good team. They've done this defensively to a lot of opponents this year.

    – Mike Budenholzer

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