Crossword-Solution: DEFENSIVELY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defensively | adv. | On the defensive. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DEFENSIVELY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "I don't like criticism of our military," argued Secretary William Cohen ____ | 1 answer |
| So as to avoid criticism | 1 answer |
| Suspiciously | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DEFENSIVELY (5)
She’s behaved like that to every one, except, of course, Teresa, and every one has been defensively rude to her in return.
And,” she added defensively, “people do make a living on ranches out here.” “That's right,” he agreed again--he was finding it very pleasant to agree with Florence Grace Hallman.
They were armed defensively with a shield, and offensively with a curved sword, and a flintlock musket slung at the saddle-bow.
Every suspension of offensive action, either from erroneous views, from fear or from indolence, is in favour of the side acting defensively.
Now how do the offensive and defensive stand respectively in relation to these things? Having in view the three principles of victory just described, the answer to this question is, that only a small portion of the first and last of these principles is in favour of the offensive, whilst the greater part of them, and the whole of the second principle, are at the command of the party acting defensively.
Quotes with DEFENSIVELY (3)
If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists
Aurora sagged. "Why is it," she asked, "that every time I'm with you two we end up stealing something big?""We always return it," Donegan said, a little defensively. "Maybe not always in one piece or necessarily to the right person but return it we do, and so it is not stealing, it is merely borrowing." Gracious looked at him. "It's a little bit stea
Where this answer appears
Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).