Sentence examples for kind of passive from inspiring English sources

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In the early days, Betty was fairly easy to manipulate, and though she's always been kind of passive, at this point, she's willing to defend that passivity as a weirdly pro-active stance.

"She's kind of passive, like Chloe," he concedes.

"She's kind of passive, like Chloë," he concedes.

However, it has created the internet paedophile, a kind of passive "armchair", rather lazy, version.

"The support for Putin is a kind of passive resistance to change," he said.

"It's Dante, who's kind of passive, and he's a poet and he's philosophical.

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That's kind of passive-aggressive.

"This statement about the 'hard pill' sounds kind of passive-aggressive to me," Pop replied in a statement.

Like his sarcastic favoriting of other peoples' tweets, is "Very Recent History" a kind of passive-aggressive dig at online culture and the exhausting demands of Internet writing?

Despite the thin veil of maternal protectiveness, Maggie is the kind of passive-aggressive mother who is too busy to really bother with the passive part.

It really takes second billing in this image, which is probably more to do with its design being less finalized than any kind of passive-aggressive shade-throwing by ESA.

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