mingy
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2011
But it's a mean, mingy thing — a lot of personal pique and inside baseball.
From Time ● Sep. 23, 2010
Her ostensible purpose is repossession of mingy personal belongings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The secular response to the tawdriness of contemporary life was not uplifting; it largely amounted to a mingy, mean spirited vindictiveness, a searching for scapegoats.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is another reunion in a mingy motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
From Time Magazine Archive
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