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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(informal) Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility..
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.
Don't buy a [back]pack with loads of extra kitchen sinky bits unless you'll be using them frequently.
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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Kitchen-sinky means (informal) Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility..
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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.
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