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UK
/mˈɪndʒi/
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ADJECTIVE
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(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
a mean person
he left a miserly tip
How To Use mingy In A Sentence
- Even the power smirk, which we haven't seen much of since he was - unfairly - blamed for single-handedly jeopardising Labour's election chances with his mingy Budget, is back.
- Thomas Keller, the chef at the French Laundry, in Napa Valley, says that sous vide is not a mingy time - and labor-saver; it’s a tool that gives chefs another worthy kitchen tool. Out of the Frying Pan
- They are treating me so well, and they are such nice people, it's hard to find anything mingy to say. I'm telling you, it wasn't my idea ...
- They sent two boxes and I said, 'You're being mingy, I want four.' A Boutique-Designing Biker Dude
- Provocatively mingy tax cuts seem to have caused black affront on a scale to surprise even the Nats.
- The mother, the Angela of the title, begged for charity and lived off the mingy help of relatives, at one point sleeping with a cousin so that her children might have a place to live. From 'Ashes' To Stardom
- Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see. On being a father
- First day of Swampitude and the left-wing blogosphere -- which is overpopulated by illiberal leftists and reactionary progressives -- is already attacking me: 24 mostly mingy comments about my Left Behind post, many of which seem to be steaming off a post by Greg Sargent, who writes a blog called The Horse's ... Now that I have your attention - Swampland - TIME.com
- Fourteen dollars, for two coffees and two mingy blondies, which he paid without flinching, even leaving the change from his twenty in the concessionaire's plastic cup.
- Attending pro tours is not for the mingy and tight-fisted, and a couple of times when Sharath applied to the government for at least a portion of the funds, the assistance came - but too late.