Usually means: Indirect resistance, avoiding direct confrontation.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. passive-aggressive: Merriam-Webster
  2. passive-aggressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passive-aggressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passive-aggressive, passive-aggressive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Passive-Aggressive, Passive-aggressive, passive-aggressive: Wordnik
  6. passive-aggressive: Wiktionary
  7. passive-aggressive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. passive-aggressive: Dictionary.com
  9. Passive-aggressive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. passive-aggressive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. passive-aggressive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Passive-aggressive: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. passive-aggressive: Medical dictionary
  4. Passive-aggressive: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Passive-Aggressive: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (passive-aggressive)

adjective:  (psychology) Showing passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations.
adjective:  Showing covert hostility, intending to cause annoyance or to humiliate, while maintaining a transparent (to the recipient) veneer of politeness.

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