Passive-aggressive people rarely tell you exactly what’s bothering them. Instead, their frustration slips out in subtle ways: a backhanded joke, a heavy sigh, an uncharacteristically curt text—all of ...

Tension: The passive-aggressive phrases that dominate workplace communication reveal power structures where direct feedback ...

Passive-aggressive comments might seem harmless on the surface, but they do a lot more damage than you think. Instead of addressing issues directly, these phrases wrap frustration, resentment, or ...

Passive-aggressive behavior occurs frequently in everyday interactions with our friends, romantic partners, family members and co-workers. But because it can be insidious, you may not always recognize ...

“Please advise.” “Just a friendly reminder.” When an email containing passive-aggressive phrases like these lands in your inbox, your first reaction will likely be annoyance. If you’re not careful, ...

The majority of passive-aggressive work emails came to employees from their own co-workers, according to a new poll from Mailsuite. Altogether, 47.69 percent of Americans said they had received a ...

Psychiatrist Daniel Hall-Flavin describes passive-aggressive behavior as “a pattern of indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of openly addressing them. There's a disconnect between what a ...