GUARDIAN
ADJ
Passive-aggressive
French
indirect
Definition
showing negative feelings indirectly
Example
"“We had clients who were living under the same roof and he would walk in the hallway and turn the lights on every time he’d go in, and she would walk in the hallway the next minute and turn the lights off – it was this kind of passive aggressive kind of thing,” Houseman says."
Synonyms
Antonyms
direct
open
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