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
Her ostensible purpose is repossession of mingy personal belongings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since most people avoid commenting on the facilities, or subscribe to the polite fiction that they haven't visited them, any establishment can safely relegate public rest rooms to a dank and mingy corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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