Hyperdefensive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely defensive.

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

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

Etymology

From hyper- + defensive.

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