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Meanings of mingy in English

(Used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.

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        Usage of mingy in English
        1
        And there was Wharton, showily pouring his mingy glasses of red, totally unrepentant.
        Dangerous Women
        2
        Both Al Gore and Bill Bradley ran mingy, whiny, depressing campaigns consumed with personal attacks, self-righteousness, and minutiae.
        The new yorker
        3
        No 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.
        Agahta christie: an autobiography
        4
        That would not cripple her, but it would throw her back on the mercies of the Windfinders, and those seemed to be growing mingy.
        Knife of dreams
        5
        "Wish the rest of that mingy lot would all vanish in a cursed forest," Carl muttered.
        The curse of deadman's forest
        Mingy through the time