[păśĭv-ə-grĕśĭv]
(adj.)Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder characterized by habitual passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in occupational or social situations, as by procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, and inefficiency.
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sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.
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Passiveaggressive behavior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passiveaggressive behavior ( negativistic personality trait ) is passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations. It...
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Passive-aggressive personality disorder is a chronic condition in which a person seems to passively comply with the desires and needs of others, but actually passively resists them, in the process becoming increasingly hostile and angry.
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Passive Aggressive behavior is a form of covert abuse. When someone hits you or yells at you, you know that you've been abused. It is obvious and easily identified. Covert abuse is subtle and veiled or disguised by actions that appear to be normal, at times loving and caring. ... Passive Aggressive (adj.) Of, relating to,
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I’ve recently been informed that my partner have passive aggressive behaviour (determined by a pshychologist) and after reading many articles, I somehow agree that maybe I too have a passive aggressive behavioural pattern, just not as obvious as my partner where he’d go violent towards himself / destructive mode...
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Passive-aggressive behavior is a pattern of expressing negative feelings in indirect, unhelpful ways. ... What are the signs and symptoms of passive-aggressive behavior?
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What exactly does it mean to say that someone is "passive-aggressive"? I hear this term used frequently, usually with reference to a coworker, child, parent, etc, who is being a pain in the ass. Surely there's a more rigorous clinical definition than that.
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