Sentence examples for mingy from inspiring English sources
"mingy" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an adjective that is used to describe someone who is stingy, especially with money or gifts. For example, "She was afraid to ask her boss for a raise because he had always been so famously mingy."
adjective
Mean, miserly, stingy.
Why the hell should she care about mingy and talentless snipers and body-watchers?
Sometimes the summer light bounces off the black-glass surface of the Exeter River and glazes the big stands of blue pine, and sometimes the pastures are full and lustrous, but ordinary days in southern New Hampshire towns can be mingy and dismal.
She understood that her books' otherworldly implications could be drawn just as meaningfully from her long, mingy striving in ordinary places as they could from other subject matter.
You might enjoy it as a low-key alternative to hyped-up American cop shows, or it might strike you as a mingy and borderline dull reworking of cop-show formulas.
I buy one of these every time I go to bring home for a friend, and then use it while still in Milan to uncork the wine I purchase at Peck, a celebrated and family-owned gastronomic temple that makes the food halls of most other metropolitan cities seem mingy and wan.
What she discovered was that many of the shoppers who visited the table with the smaller sampling ended up buying jam along with their other groceries, as compared with a mingy few among those who visited the table with the greater selection.
That vaguely mingy silhouette, so far in class terms from the fat-knot ties and lavish woolens of Savile Row suits favored by City types then and now, had an appealingly outsider air.
My first tastes of fine food were just that – mouthfuls, just enough that I could later describe the dishes to diners, meted out by mingy restaurateurs who ran what was then one of the greatest performances of elegance in San Francisco.
Obsolete content Writing on the Guardian Unlimited website, the activist Cory Doctorow said this week that the DRM business model "is the urinary tract infection of media experiences: all of the uses that used to come in an easy gush now come in a mingy, painful dribble - a few pennies out of your pocket every time you want to watch a show again, hit the pause button, or rewind".
In a place like Manhattan, where even the mingiest corner deli might offer tulips for, say, $6 a bunch, such a service does not feel like an intuitive market necessity, until you consider that those tulips have a shelf life of about 24 hours.
Infuriated, Dong Mingying, 45, and about 20 of her neighbors have been showing up at the station every day or two and threatening to go to Beijing if Mr. Gao is not released.
