(Used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.
1And there was Wharton, showily pouring his mingy glasses of red, totally unrepentant.
2Both Al Gore and Bill Bradley ran mingy, whiny, depressing campaigns consumed with personal attacks, self-righteousness, and minutiae.
3No good giving a mingy salary to a man and expecting to get one who's any good-you've got to have someone who's the tops.
4That would not cripple her, but it would throw her back on the mercies of the Windfinders, and those seemed to be growing mingy.
5"Wish the rest of that mingy lot would all vanish in a cursed forest," Carl muttered.