How To Use Mingy In A Sentence
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Papa had rented rooms in a lodg-ing house, a dark, mingy place that smelled of old dinners.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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They spit at us as early as when they burned our Yuanmingyuan imperial garden ... but those Tibetan lamas, they are Chinese too, and they could be so cruel to other ethnic people.
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I only gave five dollars towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?
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Oh, come on ,it's less than twenty quid - don't be 'mingy' !
Get Your Chipmunk Merchandise Here!
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This restaurant serves very mingy portions.
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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can think of about a million things I'd rather do than enjoy the delights of small shops - mingy people on the counter, out of date products, an appalling attitude to such matters as refunds and dissatisfaction with what you've bought.
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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.
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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.
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I only gave five dollars towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?
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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
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Tristan is an opera with no place for mingy bourgeois compromise.
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You're mingy to give me such a small piece of cake.
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Well this throws the two Hadassah ladies off, as I put a mingy $2 in their donation box.
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Shot digitally on a mingy budget, it looks start-of-the-art Hollywood --- just raw and unvarnished, like Hollywood never is.
Jesse Kornbluth: Winter's Bone Is the Best Movie I've Seen This Year (Or Hope to)
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Xiang Mingyou suggested that discourse communication is similar to commodity exchange.
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The almost ostentatiously mingy tax cuts seem to have played right into the Opposition's hands.
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I only gave five dollars towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?
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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.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The Republicans he seeks to satisfy are ideological goofballs like Iowa's Sen. Chuck Grassley, who wails that a nonprofit public insurance option would offer better deals to consumers than the mingy, exorbitantly expensive health care policies sold by the monopolistic insurance giants.
Goofing Up Health Care Reform
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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.
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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 ...
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They sent two boxes and I said, 'You're being mingy, I want four.'
A Boutique-Designing Biker Dude
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Provocatively mingy tax cuts seem to have caused black affront on a scale to surprise even the Nats.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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It was 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.
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Lineage member Wang Mingyu, also known as Guojen, emigrated to Japan in 1868, and became a prosperous merchant in Kobe.
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I only gave five dollars towards his present - do you think that was a bit mingy?
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He's a mean, mingy quasi nutcase curmudgeon who threatens players, gives them cold pricklies, and who demands attention to things like gameplan, tactics, and skills.
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The reason supplied for this outfit being able to afford only this mingy salary was because it is 'presently a tiny organisation'.
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I was feeling a bit mingy and I bought the cheaper beads when I was in NY.
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They are untrustworthy, always keen to assure buyers there is "a lot of interest" in some pokey basement, while at the same time telling sellers that a mingy offer is the best they will get.
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The almost ostentatiously mingy tax cuts, and the general theme of not Jam Tomorrow, but Jam the Day After Tomorrow, If You're All Very Good, seem to have played right into the Opposition's hands.