Meaning of hyperdefensive | Babel Free

Definitions

Extremely defensive.

Examples

“But to a hyperdefensive party, the policies that Bach advocated were controversial and potentially dangerous and therefore were rejected outright.”

“Alternatively, for the male characters there is the systematic, dogmatic 'masculine' detachment and denial of dependency of Mr Ramsay, or the intransigent, hyperdefensive shrillness of the unfortunate Charles Tansley[…]”

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