defensive attitude

Other forms: defensive attitudes

Definitions of defensive attitude
  1. noun
    an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')
    synonyms: defensive
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    type of:
    attitude, mental attitude
    a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
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