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undefensive

  • a word derived from defensive.
    defensive
    adjective
    serving to defend; protective.

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Whether we were dealing with a word, a phrase, a sentence or a major intervention, she was open, responsive, undefensive: It was the ultimate text that counted with her, not how she got to it.

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2019

Reality stars are geniuses in that they have an ability to be completely undefensive.

From The Guardian Oct. 5, 2014

What we try to do in this book is to give an unvarnished, unapologetic, undefensive account of Islam as it truly is.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had been a conflict between spiritual forces and carnal weapons, between patient propagandism and vindictive conservatism; on one side, invincible missionary zeal joined with undefensive submission, on the other, senseless misrepresentation and cruel persecution.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

Her eyes grew seriously deep and undefensive in their frankness.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh