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
They played daringly, theatrically, with no mingy concessions to "realism"; but they tempered their intensity with style.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is another reunion in a mingy motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
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
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