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Example sentences for: passive-aggressive

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Eleanor comes under the thumb of her passive-aggressive mother-in-law Sara (Nurse Ratched-cum-Martha Stewart), who uses the family finances to stay Top Woman in her son's life.
The only character whose pain we don't feel is also the only "normal" one, Stevenson's Trish--a sugary, passive-aggressive gargoyle who embodies everything that made some of us flee the suburbs for the urban jungle.
The family belongs to the passive-aggressive school of communication.
It sounds to Prudie like your dominatrix friend is passive-aggressive, with only a tiny quotient of the passive.
However, I can't let our last day of discussion pass without praising Cook for one of her neatest insights into ER and her marriage--concerning the passive-aggressive behavior by which she punished Franklin and others.