Passive-aggressiveness works best when you know what you’re doing. Amateur passive-aggressive insults come across for what they are: aggressive. If you are indeed a master, then permit yourself ...

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.

“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 ...