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  • Passive-agressive is when someone uses seemingly polite comments in a backhanded manner to insult someone.

    Think Progress » ThinkProgress is leaving Las Vegas. 2006

  • China's so called agressive international investments be it in Africa, Europe or Latin

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • This of course was Bush's ideology, but the 'agressive' mannar in which he carried this out caused this superpower credibility to falter.

    D-Day in West Virginia 2008

  • So the 'fortuitous outcome of battle', the 'discrimination' against inhabitants of Palestine was never, as has been stated here by Arab apologists, some kind of agressive action by Zionist founders of Israel, but purely the result of hardened Arab attitudes by different Arab factions, who even allied themselves to fascism and Nazi Germany, in their obsessive anti-Semitism and militant rejection of Israel, because it conflicted with their own nationalism and antagonism to Jews.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Now, some will debate whether or not he's being 'agressive' enough, but one thing is clear, he is fighting a much cleaner fight.

    Obama Responds To Bill's Reference To Jesse Jackson 2009

  • Mr. Smith noted that results were hurt by competitors '"agressive" discounting.

    Wendy's Net Income Falls 32% 2008

  • So my creatures can be whatever the color I choose and have mouths on their asses but they can't live in water, are alway symmetrical, have roughly the same size, reproduce sexually, always lay eggs, have nests, strangely in completely unprotected areas and are judged ONLY by how ether "agressive" or "peacefull" they are.

    Spore 2008

  • So my creatures can be whatever the color I choose and have mouths on their asses but they can't live in water, are alway symmetrical, have roughly the same size, reproduce sexually, always lay eggs, have nests, strangely in completely unprotected areas and are judged ONLY by how ether "agressive" or "peacefull" they are.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • In my experience some borrowed words in Russian sound the same as the foreign source but after many years of use acquired different, sometimes the opposite, meaning "agressive" is first that comes to mind

    languagehat.com: GDT. 2005

  • I don't believe my reply was "agressive", but rather "forthright". edit, again: I've change the idiotic: = to!

    AutoHotkey Community 2010

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