Before revision: Most of the definitions which follow (which had previously been classified as passive-aggressive) are often more correctly described as overt aggression , or covert aggression (which is the correct definition to describe subtle, deliberate, calculating, and underhanded tactics that manipulators and other disturbed characters use to intimidate, control, deceive and abuse others) .
After revision: Most of the definitions which follow (which had previously been classified as passive-aggressive) are often more correctly described as overt aggression or covert aggression .