dinkier; dinkiest
: overly or unattractively small
drives a dinky little car
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Examples of dinky in a Sentence
I used to drive a dinky little car.
recent college graduates crowding into a dinky New York City apartment
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Don't expect a dinky paper card from Chip Gaines.
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Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
That’s more than 85,000 years worth of attention on a dinky little drama with no big ambitions.
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
Many, if not most, cafes have a vat in their kitchens, and dinky jars of less than one ounce dot airport lounges across the country.
—Natasha Frost Abigail Varney, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
That could also be a cover for not wanting to go to a dinkier platform / get sued, but there does seem to be a grain of truth to that.
—Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
That's something that would be very hard to deliver given the concept's dinky dimensions and tight packaging.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
—Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
Anyone who revels in such tales of subterfuge will be elated to find the customary props in place: a chalk mark swiped across a lamppost; a radio turned up loud to deter bugging; and—my favorite—a dinky Minox camera, used to photograph military documents and diagrams.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
One star is a dinky red dwarf, and the other is a fairly Sun-like star, though somewhat smaller and cooler.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
That’s more than 85,000 years worth of attention on a dinky little drama with no big ambitions.
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
Many, if not most, cafes have a vat in their kitchens, and dinky jars of less than one ounce dot airport lounges across the country.
—Natasha Frost Abigail Varney, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
That could also be a cover for not wanting to go to a dinkier platform / get sued, but there does seem to be a grain of truth to that.
—Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
That's something that would be very hard to deliver given the concept's dinky dimensions and tight packaging.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
—Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
Anyone who revels in such tales of subterfuge will be elated to find the customary props in place: a chalk mark swiped across a lamppost; a radio turned up loud to deter bugging; and—my favorite—a dinky Minox camera, used to photograph military documents and diagrams.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
One star is a dinky red dwarf, and the other is a fairly Sun-like star, though somewhat smaller and cooler.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
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“Dinky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinky. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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