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Not to be confused with the passive voice, passive aggression is used regularly in the English language. Lewis is back to give you some helpful pointers to look out for those massive phrases in your next email exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":56274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9442],"tags":[5702,1174,5896,7098,7100],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTop Passive Aggressive Phrases in English | Lingoda - Online Language School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A lot of English emails come with passive aggressive language. 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