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"ref": "2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
"text": "“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 disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.",
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"text": "Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it. No doubt there were frosty telegrams in centuries gone by.",
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passiv-agressiv"
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passiv-aggressiv"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "pathitikoepithetikós",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "παθητικοεπιθετικός"
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passivo-aggressivo"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "passívno-agressívnyj",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "пасси́вно-агресси́вный"
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "pasívne agresívny"
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "pasivo-agresivo"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passivt aggressiv"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passiv-agressiv"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passiivis-aggressiivinen"
},
{
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passif-agressif"
},
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passiv-aggressiv"
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{
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pathitikoepithetikós",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "παθητικοεπιθετικός"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passivo-aggressivo"
},
{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "passívno-agressívnyj",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "пасси́вно-агресси́вный"
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "pasívne agresívny"
},
{
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "pasivo-agresivo"
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"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passivt aggressiv"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "passivaggressiv"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "obstructionism via taking no action",
"word": "pasif-agresif"
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"code": "tr",
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