(Used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.
1 And there was Wharton, showily pouring his mingy glasses of red, totally unrepentant.
2 Both Al Gore and Bill Bradley ran mingy , whiny, depressing campaigns consumed with personal attacks, self-righteousness, and minutiae.
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.
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 .
5 "Wish the rest of that mingy lot would all vanish in a cursed forest," Carl muttered.
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