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WOTD  
Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere
Tuesday 12th November 2024
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rinky-dink (adjective and noun) RING-kee-dingk



Out-of-date, old-fashioned, insignificant, trite, cheap; an inferior person or thing.

The Commonwealth is not a rinky-dink little outfit that does not have much in the way of resources.

C J Zahra, Australian Hansard, 14 March 2002. ACT (Represenatives) Hansard

Respondent replied that the Montgomery County jail was "rinky-dink," and that they could "break out."

US Supreme Court, Illinois v. Perkins, 496 U.S. 292 (1990), decided 4 June 1990. US Supreme Court

Their famous Martinis are a civilised, rinky-dink little size, coiled with lemon peel or a bobbing olive.

Jan Moir, The Observer, 18 November 2007. The Observer

Yet ever since Fawlty Towers, this matchless town has been a byword for rinky-dink naffness.

Julie Burchill, Guardian Unlimited, 29 July 2000. Guardian Unlimited


Mr. Burgert, a 38-year-old who last made a living renting out snowmobiles here in this spectacularly beautiful nook of northwestern Montana, had a terror plan that made Osama bin Laden's look rinky-dink.

Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, 7 June 2002. New York Times




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