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
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
In the drab, chilly setting of a mingy government-sponsored art class, British Playwright David Storey sounds a muted dirge for a dying civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally, they will have to change the mingy, defensive, consultant-driven style of recent campaigns.
From Time Magazine Archive
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