passive resistance

1. noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate
   • 1964, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi‎^[1], volume XII, →OCLC, page vi:

     On June 2, Gandhiji declared in an interview that passive resistance was inevitable if Government failed to meet Indian demands.

   • 1975 December 21, “Difficulties in agriculture”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XVI, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Some Maoist “party cadres” at the lower echelon have taken an attitude of passive resistance against the “campaign of learning from Tachai in agriculture,” that was launched by Mao Tse-tung.

• passive-aggressive

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