"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "To cut and run," he said, sounding slightly defensive.
- Right now, though, he has taken a slightly defensive posture, with a duration of slightly more than four years in his portfolio.
- Is it my imagination or does he look slightly defensive?
- "Well, my physique isn't what it was in the old pictures," Veronica says, slightly defensive.
- However, a slightly defensive position is not only acceptable when riding over solid obstacles, but in most cases ideal.
- "David is intentionally less visible than Christie," he says, seeming slightly defensive.
- Janeway took on a slightly defensive posture, as if she were uneasy about whatever topic he might raise next.
- We have also given him a more attacking role, as opposed to a slightly defensive one earlier.
- I've simply got to solve the mystery, if it has a solution,' he added, with a slightly defensive air.
- The world has changed since Feather wrote those slightly defensive words.
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