Passive-aggressive

Mary is passive-aggressive.

Tom is passive-aggressive.

He's a passive-aggressive teacher.

He is a passive-aggressive teacher.

Sami was so passive-aggressive.

Sami was passive-aggressive.

I'm trying to be less passive-aggressive.

There is nothing worse than a passive-aggressive co-worker.

If you're smart enough, you'll realize doctors are passive-aggressive cunts playing stupid for profit.

Mark was passive-aggressive to Jessica all the time.

“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.

Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it. No doubt there were frosty telegrams in centuries gone by.