laundry list

noun

, Informal.

1. a lengthy, especially random list of items:

   a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.

laundry list

noun

1. a list of items perceived as being long

   a laundry list of complaints

Word History and Origins

Origin of laundry list¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

It will contain natural ingredients, unlike most shower soaps and shampoos that are loaded with a laundry list of chemicals that will dry you out.

From Popular-Science

Even this piece, this opportunity that I have as an autistic writer to explore the impact of Atypical as more than a laundry list of what I think it did and didn’t get right about autism, is a sliver of progress.

From Time

The buzzword laundry lists probably make some people feel special or individual for being able to get them.

From Vox

A laundry list of nations attempted — some quietly, others publicly — to shape American opinion ahead of the presidential election last November in a bid to get their preferred candidate elected.

From Ozy

Part of a tired strategy employed in Colombia which people now openly question, this laundry list of armed groups detailed by Molano has also been repeated by the president and the district attorney.

From The Daily Beast

These are two in a laundry list of troubling connections between the two companies.

From The Daily Beast

Lie Down with Lions (1985) gave a shoutout to gays in a laundry list of human rights to worry about.

From The Daily Beast

This issue is the most contentious in a laundry list of redactions Feinstein has now asked the White House to reverse.

From The Daily Beast

He was, in short, a walking laundry list of the social problems that have seized our social narrative.

From The Daily Beast

He mentioned the law among a laundry list of accomplishments made by the GOP-run legislature.

From The Daily Beast

In the morning sunshine she finds that it is an old laundry list.

From Project Gutenberg

Learn to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home.

From Project Gutenberg