The most harmful speech habit is saying one thing when you really mean another. Public speaking expert John Bowe shares the ...

But the worst habit that people with poor speech etiquette have is passive aggressive language: saying one thing when you mean another. Why? Because when people sense that they're hearing ...

Sarcasm and negative humor are common tools for passive-aggressive gaslighters. By masking insults as jokes, they can hurt their target without taking responsibility for their behavior.

"Bless your heart" has many different meanings in the South. Sometimes it's used as a passive-aggressive insult (a nice way for a polite Southerner to tell you that you're wrong), and sometimes it ...

“This type of aggression is also known as indirect hostility, indirect aggression or passive aggression.” While most of us have a general idea of the types of behaviors that qualify as passive ...

Subtle insults Most of us recognize when we are ... then it might not be a case of passive-aggressive behavior. But if it is frequent and not obviously attributable to independent, external ...