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- adjective Not
defensive .
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Examples
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Fuse 8 led me to Susan Patron's defense of The Higher Power of Lucky's Scrotum at PW online, and while it is admirably articulate and refreshingly undefensive, I am bothered by one line: "If I were a parent of a middle-grade child, I would want to make decisions about my child's reading myself."
Bagging our principles Roger Sutton 2007
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Fuse 8 led me to Susan Patron's defense of The Higher Power of Lucky's Scrotum at PW online, and while it is admirably articulate and refreshingly undefensive, I am bothered by one line: "If I were a parent of a middle-grade child, I would want to make decisions about my child's reading myself."
Archive 2007-02-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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Not this morning, anyway, in his manager's office in L.A., where he seems -- given his reputation as a monosyllabic, recalcitrant interview -- remarkably affable and undefensive.
Goodbye, Airhead 2008
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A Thai friend gave me an insight into this human characteristic many years ago when I remarked that Thais were completely undefensive about Westerners despite the economic backwardness of Thailand in those days.
Archive 2005-09-04 Steve Sailer 2005
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A Thai friend gave me an insight into this human characteristic many years ago when I remarked that Thais were completely undefensive about Westerners despite the economic backwardness of Thailand in those days.
8/28/05 - 9/4/05 Steve Sailer 2005
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A Thai friend gave me an insight into this human characteristic many years ago when I remarked that Thais were completely undefensive about Westerners despite the economic backwardness of Thailand in those days.
Favorite Footnotes Steve Sailer 2005
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Lord Newhaven was stretched in an easy but undefensive attitude on the heathery bank, with his hands behind his head.
Red Pottage 2004
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Lord Newhaven was stretched in an easy but undefensive attitude on the heathery bank, with his hands behind his head.
Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892
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He is surprisingly undefensive given the barrage that's been aimed at his institution from many in the UK recently.
BBC News - Home 2011
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When you talk about Alphas being relaxed, undefensive, their flexibility, not taking women seriously: all stems from THEIR natural being - they are capable, above-average men.
Roissy in DC 2008
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