passive-aggressive personality

[pas-iv-uh-gres-iv]

noun

Psychiatry.

1. a personality disorder characterized by aggressive behavior expressed in passive ways, as procrastination, stubbornness, or pouting.

Example Sentences

Her Michelle Fuller is the type of leader who gets pictured on magazine covers, and Mr. Lanthimos shows her getting up at 4:30 for a regimen of cardio, strength training and hand-to-hand combat before reporting cheerfully to her office, where her passive-aggressive personality is increasingly the defining ethos.

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Mr. McCourry recently became a father and — after a nearly 10-year long bureaucratic struggle — successfully convinced the Navy to correct his reason for discharge to combat-related PTSD, instead of passive-aggressive personality disorder.

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Modern research correlates this type with antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, paranoid, and passive-aggressive personality disorders.

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Her narrative is self-serving and reveals a controlling, passive-aggressive personality.

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The weather bot also has its own pre-programmed, passive-aggressive personality.

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