Meaning of kitchen-sinky | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Inclusive of too wide a variety of features or items, typically with a resulting trade-off in efficiency or usefulness.
   form-of, inclusive, informal
2. Of or pertaining to the kitchen sink drama; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.

Examples

“Don't buy a [back]pack with loads of extra kitchen sinky bits unless you'll be using them frequently.”

“It is not kitchen-sinky if we understand a kitchen-sink not simply [as] a language very loaded with various grammatical and phonological features but only a language where they are only for their own sake and don't make a functional system together.”

“I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky.”

“"How to Read a Word" includes quite a bit of related material, including a slightly kitchen-sinky collection of "word stories," investigating words such as wordhoard, skulduggery, and yes, lexicographer; […]”

“Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.”

“"Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality."”

“"He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose. I love that. It could have all been documentary-like or a bit kitchen sinky, and all rough and tough. […]”

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