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Example sentences for: defensiveness

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Gore is using his debate challenge as moral cover for his attacks on Bradley's character, and the media are turning their scrutiny on Bradley's "defensiveness" instead.
And most of the subsequent Microsoft witnesses brought to the trial the same set of characteristics that were so vividly on display during the Gates deposition: defensiveness, arrogance, an unwillingness to say anything straightforwardly.
If you exaggerate the claims for EBM, you intensify the natural defensiveness of those who feel themselves not to be completely in line with the new regime.
The neighbors' comments may also represent a kind of cover-your-ass legal defensiveness.