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Passive-aggressive people seem calm and able to take things in stride; rather than speaking up, they simmer and hold on to their anger.
Ronit Herzfeld: The Three Faces Of Anger: Which One Is Yours? Ronit Herzfeld 2011
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Passive-aggressive anger creates distrust and people learn not to count on them.
Ronit Herzfeld: The Three Faces Of Anger: Which One Is Yours? Ronit Herzfeld 2011
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Passive-aggressive guilt-tripping cuts across all social and ethnic groups.
I'm Living In A Lightbulb Joke fastfwd 2010
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Passive-aggressive behavior is a form of anger, but its anger in disguise.
Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009
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"Passive-aggressive" has become the accusation of the day, and we've come to accept it, even find humor in it.
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Passive-aggressive people are invariably an hour late, a dollar short and a block away, armed with an endless list of excuses to deflect responsibility.
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Passive-aggressive weaseling with loaded words is the essence of contempt masquerading as civility.
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Passive-aggressive guys learn to ignore ultimatums, especially those laid down by the powerless Victim.
Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man Ph.D. Scott Wetzler 1992
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Passive-aggressive men want to succeed; you want them to succeed, but every one of them makes chinks in his own armor.
Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man Ph.D. Scott Wetzler 1992
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Passive-aggressive men are likely to re-create unsatisfactory relationships, if only because they have a familiarity to them, even if it is an awful familiarity.
Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man Ph.D. Scott Wetzler 1992
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