passive-aggressive
被动攻击性,被动攻击,被动攻击型,被动进攻
Definitions
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- : denoting or pertaining to a personality type or behavior marked by the expression of negative emotions in passive, indirect ways, as through manipulation or noncooperation: a passive-aggressive employee who often misses deadlines.
Examples
They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.
And it is not clear that there have been a rash of lawsuits from outraged parents over aggressive Christmastime greetings.
Kim Jong Un is changing role models, steering Pyongyang away from Chinese autocrats toward the ultra-aggressive Vladimir Putin.
In a rather passive aggressive letter, the House Minority Leader wrote.
She alighted, and her aggressive servants drew away somewhat.
And here M. Barbiche suddenly threw himself into the attitude of an enraged and aggressive monkey.
Passive hyperemia occurs most commonly in diseases of the heart and liver and in pregnancy.
In conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.
His chin, thrust slightly forward in a manner almost aggressive, showed the dusk of close-shaven hair.