underassertively

comparative more underassertively · superlative most underassertively

1. In an underassertive manner.

   The assertiveness training sessions involved role-playing in a given situation in three ways, viz., underassertively (passively), overassertively (aggressively), and assertively.

   2014, Dr. Jane Akponye, Children of Divorced Parents, →ISBN

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   Some of the most difficult situations for underassertive people involve requests and compliments: — making a request — refusing a request — giving a compliment — accepting a compliment. People who act underassertively may have difficulty asking others for what they want,

   1984, William N. Tindall, Robert S. Beardsley, Frederic R. Curtiss, Communication in pharmacy practice

   Rather, like the medical institutions, and like many American parents around him, he was cautiously — "underassertively," he often says — feeling his way toward alternatives to the old-fashioned techniques.

   1996, The New Yorker - Volume 72, page 84