defensiveness

He used it without any sign of defensiveness last week.

She worked hard to keep the cool defensiveness out of her voice.

But there was a defensiveness in his voice that I didn't like at all.

There was just a touch of defensiveness in her voice.

There is also a certain defensiveness among those who make more than one piece at a time.

Better question: Why is this game worth all the defensiveness?

At the same time he had felt a sudden defensiveness.

When she looked at him now, he saw more sympathy, less defensiveness.

"We met a great deal of defensiveness, both in Washington and on base," she said.

I couldn't seem to avoid the defensiveness in my tone.

But all this defensiveness is not necessarily good for the patient.

I don't go there often,' she added with a touch of defensiveness.

There was no official defensiveness or air of superior knowledge.

Rattled as he was, her defensiveness hit him the wrong way.

There was no defensiveness in it, not that he could detect.

The defensiveness was back with a vengeance, but there seemed no way she could control it.

"We have women who can fight," Jim said, but looked as if he heard a certain tone of defensiveness in his own voice.

He heard the defensiveness in his voice, the underlying anger ready to attack.

His mother came in with an air of belligerent defensiveness.

The President made the statements without any hint of defensiveness.

But she wasn't the sort of woman who could find any comfort in such loud defensiveness.

But in the years since Sept. 11, diplomacy has given way to defensiveness.

This was in his voice, a mere shade of defensiveness.

But the look on his face bespoke more than defensiveness.

But even as he did, he heard a defensiveness in his voice.