I always hear talk about someone being passive aggressive and how everyone hates passive aggressive people, but never fully understood the concept.
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There are essentially two meanings of this term:
1) In psychology, when someone is being passive aggressive, they are aggressive towards someone by *not* to taking an action. Say by not removing an obstacle in someone’s path.
2) In common usage, essentially it means that someone is expressing themselves as if they weren’t angry even though they clearly are. (e.g. “it would be really nice if the certain someone who took my food out of the fridge fessed up, pretty please with sugar on top!”). (I guess unhinged shrieking with rage is preferable to some people.)
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