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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.
- You're mingy to give me such a small piece of cake.
- I only gave five dollars towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?
- Oh, come on ,it's less than twenty quid - don't be 'mingy' ! Get Your Chipmunk Merchandise Here!
- This restaurant serves very mingy portions.
- I can think of about a million things I'd rather do than enjoy the delights of small shops - mingy people on the counter, out of date products, an appalling attitude to such matters as refunds and dissatisfaction with what you've bought.
- Sometimes she opined He was maybe a little skraps - mingy - in the dishing out of common sense, which she said was not really that common after all.
- The few mingy scraps of surviving forest were eerily silent, but once they crossed the borders of the MURC-controlled zone the vegetation closed around them with the density of a cave.
- I only gave five dollars towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?
- When he's got three mornings' worth of video tape – which is all he can afford on this mingy little grant – John will be able to start on the really creative part of the project. Margaret Atwood | Underbrush Man