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Meaning of kitchen-sinkery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Household cleaning tasks.
    uncountable
  2. The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
    uncountable

Examples

“If there's one thing that binds me rigid it's kitchen-sinkery. We should have brought a washing machine, then no doubt old Chin - Chin would have turned out clean shirts for us every day.”
“In doing so, we've acquired a dishwasher. No matter that it's elderly, if not obsolete — it's our chance to put kitchen-sinkery behind us and begin a leisured after-dinner life.”
“All of that could read like the obligatory kitchen-sinkery of so many postmodern novels, too suspicious of conventional narrative to settle down.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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