A person who is passive aggressive needs to feel dominant and in control. They also need to make others feel inadequate to relieve a feeling of deficiency within themselves.
Verbal abuse can begin as small digs disguised as jokes.. When your partner teases, ridicules and humiliates you with sarcastic remarks about your appearance, personality, abilities and values, or makes comments about you in front of friends that mock or belittle you it is Verbal abuse.
