undefensive
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a word derived from
defensive.
defensiveadjectiveserving to defend; protective.
Example Sentences
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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
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Lord Newhaven was stretched in an easy but undefensive attitude on the heathery bank, with his hands behind his head.
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
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 Alfred Brittain