kitchen-sinkery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

kitchen sink +‎ -ery

Noun[edit]

kitchen-sinkery (uncountable)

  1. The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
    • 2016, Kathryn Schulz, “Race and racing in C. E. Morgan's ‘The Sport of Kings’”, in The New Yorker, page 66:
      All of that could read like the obligatory kitchen-sinkery of so many postmodern novels, too suspicious of conventional narrative to settle down.