defensiveness

IPA: dɪfˈɛnsɪvnʌs

Examples of "defensiveness" in Sentences

But my defensiveness is not just indignation at being doubted.
Anybody who votes for any reason other than pure defensiveness is a fool.
And so I think there's a certain defensiveness, a certain closing ranks around Barack Obama.
Actually, I don't doubt that defensiveness is often the motivation when this charge is leveled.
Which brings us to fear of saying the wrong thing: Your defensiveness is a precursor to walking on eggshells.
I've had this script spoken "to" me -- and I found that I didn't rise up in defensiveness because it didn't attack me in any way.
The defensiveness comes from the fact that those in the records department, Jack and I, take great offensive to a comment suggesting we aren't correctly portraying what in Jack's case has been a distinguished career working for the club and trying to keep the records as representative as possible since that is why it was started, we are a conservation organization that keeps records not a records keeping organization that cares about conservation.