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pass-agg

pass-agg is the clipping of passive-aggressive.

Meaning of passive-aggressive

Adjective

passive-aggressive (comparative more passive-aggressive, superlative most passive-aggressive)

  1. Showing passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations.
  2. Showing covert hostility, intending to cause annoyance or to humiliate, while maintaining a transparent (to the recipient) veneer of politeness.
    • “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...2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013

Forms of pass-agg

comparativemore pass-agg
superlativemost pass-agg
alternative formpass agg

Questions about pass-agg

What is pass-agg the clipping of?
Pass-agg is the clipping of passive-aggressive.

Words near pass-agg in the dictionary

  1. pass up like a white chip
  2. pass urine
  3. pass water
  4. pass wind
  5. pass'd
  6. pass-agg
  7. pass-and-play
  8. pass-by-future
  9. pass-by-name
  10. pass-by-need
  11. pass-by-reference

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pass-agg (page history and authors); passive-aggressive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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