[kran-kee]
adjective
ill-tempered; irritable; grouchy
These stupid TV commercials are making me cranky.
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Happy Thanksgiving, friends and readers! It’s good to count our blessings every once in a while, and today is the perfect day to do so. Here are a few things
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Back in the days when I worked as someone else’s employee, a manager would occasionally ask why I seemed so resistant to making seemingly minor copy changes requested by other
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One of the worst TV commercials of 2018 is back on the air. Let’s all point and laugh at Little Caesars’s “Can’t See The Crust,” a deliberate nipple-slip of an
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Sony’s live TV streaming service, PS Vue, is ending. But don’t blame the ads, because they were great. Let’s see what PS Vue advertising got right that so many ads
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