kitchen-sinky

comparative more kitchen-sinky · superlative most kitchen-sinky · alternative kitchen sinky

1. informalEncompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility.

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

   2011, Nancy Deville, Healthy, Sexy, Happy: A Thrilling Journey to the Ultimate You, Greenleaf Book Group, published 2011, →ISBN

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

   1999 November 5, Peter Clinch, “Re: Looking For a Backpack”, in rec.backcountry (Usenet)

   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.

   2007, John Quijada, "Re: Aesthetics", Conlang Mailing list archives, 23 October 2007

   "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; […]

   2011 March 20, Erin McKean, “DIY dictionary”, in Boston Globe

2. broadcastingOf or pertaining to kitchen sink realism; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.

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

   2001 February 4, Susannah Clapp, “Mother knows best”, in The Guardian

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   "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."

   2007 April 29, Stephanie Bunbury, “Tide and emotions”, in The Age

   "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. […]

   2011 February 7, Gina Picallo, “Helen Mirren interview”, in The Telegraph