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Recent Examples of rinky-dink
This is not going to be some rinky-dink 80-minute sketch show.
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Jeff Conway, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Daniel Kluger and Drew Levy’s sound design is magnificently unsubtle, and Kluger’s interstitial piano music is spot-on: vaguely period with the quality of being played on the side of the stage on a rinky-dink upright.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
The film starts in the characters’ present with Art and Patrick facing off at the 2019 Phil’s Tire Town Challenge in New Rochelle, N.Y., a surprisingly rinky-dink backdrop for all of the fraught flashbacks to come.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
From the outside, Michigan Stadium looks rinky-dink, because three-quarters of it is below ground level.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
By comparison, the scene in Fort Lauderdale was rinky-dink.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
The movie casts Falk as a minor antagonist, a bulldog who was trying to keep MJ away from rinky-dink lil’ Nike.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
If your options always seem to be a heavy, bulky flashlight or a rinky-dink junk drawer gadget, take heed: the perfect happy medium does exist.
—Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2023
Jeff Conway, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Daniel Kluger and Drew Levy’s sound design is magnificently unsubtle, and Kluger’s interstitial piano music is spot-on: vaguely period with the quality of being played on the side of the stage on a rinky-dink upright.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
The film starts in the characters’ present with Art and Patrick facing off at the 2019 Phil’s Tire Town Challenge in New Rochelle, N.Y., a surprisingly rinky-dink backdrop for all of the fraught flashbacks to come.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
From the outside, Michigan Stadium looks rinky-dink, because three-quarters of it is below ground level.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
By comparison, the scene in Fort Lauderdale was rinky-dink.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
The movie casts Falk as a minor antagonist, a bulldog who was trying to keep MJ away from rinky-dink lil’ Nike.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
If your options always seem to be a heavy, bulky flashlight or a rinky-dink junk drawer gadget, take heed: the perfect happy medium does exist.
—Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rinky-dink
Adjective
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While traditional wisdom may say to avoid white linen pants after Labor Day, fashion-forward travelers ditched that antiquated rule years ago.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Sep. 2025
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So there is nothing to displace the antiquated image of a pyramid of boxes that remains implanted in our brains.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Sitting in the living room of his quaint two-story suburban home in Atlanta’s Howell Station neighborhood, Chad Murray is doing his best to speak carefully about the new transmission line Georgia Power is building nearby.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
27 Aug. 2025
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The Prince and Princess of Wales, along with their three kids—Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis—are moving later this year from the quaint four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage in the Windsor Home Park to the stately Forest Lodge within Windsor Great Park, BBC first reported.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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By learning from these craftspeople, AIs can now replace them in offering advice, thus threatening to render the original human experts obsolete.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And the decor is still the same paneled walls with old-time ads for Nehi and Cepacol.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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For years, when my wife and I took our kids and drove the eight-plus-hour drive to the beach for summer vacations, Cracker Barrel was our go-to for meals and old-time candy.—
Greg Petro,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The trendy animal print pattern combined with the crisscross buckle design offers a sophisticated, retro feel that’ll perk up any classic pair of jeans.—
Melody Kazel,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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An oversized heron print by Gucci on a retro pink backdrop forms a striking focal point, offset by the clean geometry of the Manhattan skyline.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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All this plays out against the Borg’s family home in Oslo, an old-world cottage that looks sprung from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, but holding generations of memories and trauma, embedded in its walls.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Home offices also benefit from old-world wallpaper.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The conniption — a properly old-fashioned word, considering the restaurants' rustic decor and pretend general store — started last week.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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In the old-fashioned murmuring fridge is a hard cheese, marmalade, and olives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Propelled by one of guitarist Wes Borland’s hypnotic riffs, crunching beats, old-school record scratches and the group’s signature shouty choruses, the whole thing comes crashing to a close with a pummeling final chorus that finally nods to the country star in the title.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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Finished with butter, this chicken is at home served with Roasted Potatoes, green beans, or old-school Stick of Butter Rice.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Rinky-dink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rinky-dink. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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