passive-aggressive

Those recipes are about the only Thanksgivingy thing about the episode, which mostly revolves around Ross being a mopey passive-aggressive jerk who has somehow become the object of two women’s affection.

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.

Leslie Vernick, a licensed clinical social worker and relationship coach, has written about the silent treatment and how it is born from a sense of injury and victimhood, even though it is ultimately a passive-aggressive way of not dealing with a situation.

Metcalfe’s thesis is driven by a romanticized notion of Blundy’s life, but as McEwan slowly and carefully reveals, his poem, ostensibly a “repository of dreams,” more closely resembles a passive-aggressive act.

There’s even something passive-aggressive about Suzanne’s show of concern for all viewpoints, a trait that becomes all the more conspicuous after a crisis erupts at the school.