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passiv in English:

1. passive


He has a passive character.
67% of those who never smoked said they worried about the health effects of passive smoking.
If you stay that passive, your girlfriend will leave you.
Now Marina was a romantic, she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.
TV is harmful in that it keeps your mind in a passive state.
Watching television changes the role of the fans by making their participation more passive and distant.
The passive man seldom, if ever, expresses himself.
In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.
Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.
It is clearly shown in Johnson's investigation that passive smoking is very harmful.
The grammar section includes the passive voice of the present perfect.
The medieval damsel is our archetype of the passive female.
Your passive lifestyle will badly affect your health.
Traditionally in many professions women have been confined to more passive roles.
Kathy seems to take a very passive role in the relationship.

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2. passively



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