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  • noun A form of psychological attack on somebody by offering contradictory alternatives and criticizing the person for choosing either.

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crazy +‎ making

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  • Quirk has two full-grown children; his daughter is a Dumpster-diving freegan who owns her own home elsewhere in Brooklyn and his son is involved in a religious cult in Sag Harbor led by a charismatic woman with a prison record, which brings its own heaping spoonful of crazymaking drama.

    Holly Cara Price: Book Review: The Astral by Kate Christensen Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Quirk has two full-grown children; his daughter is a Dumpster-diving freegan who owns her own home elsewhere in Brooklyn and his son is involved in a religious cult in Sag Harbor led by a charismatic woman with a prison record, which brings its own heaping spoonful of crazymaking drama.

    Holly Cara Price: Book Review: The Astral by Kate Christensen Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Quirk has two full-grown children; his daughter is a Dumpster-diving freegan who owns her own home elsewhere in Brooklyn and his son is involved in a religious cult in Sag Harbor led by a charismatic woman with a prison record, which brings its own heaping spoonful of crazymaking drama.

    Holly Cara Price: Book Review: The Astral by Kate Christensen Holly Cara Price 2011

  • The comment-in-thread issue is crazymaking. dulcinbradbury offered during the 'thon to take on the huge task of commenting to all of the people bidding outside of the thread to tell them to bid properly, and commenting to all the people who'd been outbid outside of the thread and therefore received no notification.

    Monday! fjm 2009

  • Quirk has two full-grown children; his daughter is a Dumpster-diving freegan who owns her own home elsewhere in Brooklyn and his son is involved in a religious cult in Sag Harbor led by a charismatic woman with a prison record, which brings its own heaping spoonful of crazymaking drama.

    Holly Cara Price: Book Review: The Astral by Kate Christensen Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Quirk has two full-grown children; his daughter is a Dumpster-diving freegan who owns her own home elsewhere in Brooklyn and his son is involved in a religious cult in Sag Harbor led by a charismatic woman with a prison record, which brings its own heaping spoonful of crazymaking drama.

    Holly Cara Price: Book Review: The Astral by Kate Christensen Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Poor little Orwellian Wrongwingers and their crazymaking.

    Think Progress » REPORT: After Voting To Kill Recovery, 110 GOP Lawmakers Tout Its Success, Ask For More Money 2010

  • Yes, pro-lifers would say, you are morally obligated to make the choice that will be the most damaging, burdensome, complicated, and potentially warping and crazymaking.

    Abortion Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • They are perfect and wonderful and amazing and mind-numbing and crazymaking and irritating and energy zappers.

    Bloggers=Awesome kittenpie 2008

  • Not because the PDS go see them, but because they are so good at their crazymaking that those of us exposed to them need years of therapy to recover.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009

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