as in careful
giving or sharing as little as possible
the company's mingy Christmas bonuses haven't exactly helped sagging employee morale
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Recent Examples of mingy
There was nothing mingy or minimalist about their aesthetic.
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Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2019
Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mingy
Adjective
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Watch out for slippery roads: Be extra careful during the first half hour after rain begins.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
7 June 2025
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But the Thunder do need to be careful going up against this Indiana team.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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But the approval process has been slow, the discounts vary from carrier to carrier, the requirements coming from insurers don’t always match the state’s own standards and the savings on offer are, according to some, miserly.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2025
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Newcastle's player sale profits were miserly for years until June 2024 Profit on player sales from 2014 to 2024 (£millions) Column chart of Newcastle United profit on player sales, where club record £69.8m in 2023-24 far outweigh what came before.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But, even though there was nothing the slightest bit ungracious or ungenerous about her performance, it was felt more like the audience being asked to come to her.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps most perplexing about Smash, though, is its weirdly cynical, ungenerous take on the Bombshell herself.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In the late 1800s, two child psychologists coined the term only child syndrome to describe the negative traits that their research showed only children often possess, including being spoiled, selfish, maladjusted, and anti-social.—
Liz Hammond,
Vogue,
11 June 2025
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What if the very structure of our success makes having children feel like a selfish, impossible luxury?—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Behind a stingy defensive performance, the Valkyries defeated the Storm 76-70 on Saturday to win their third straight game.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
14 June 2025
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Nationally, the stingiest bosses were in Louisiana, who gave only 2.8% raises late last year.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Are the companies somehow less greedy in other states?—
Ted Gaines,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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What the greedy developers are trying to do burns me to no end.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Every year, a complacent, tightfisted city council turned down the recommendations.—
Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2023
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Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
31 May 2023
Adjective
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This parsimonious approach protects you from overdoing it when a less resource-intensive and even faster way to get the data would have been enough.—
Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Driving the reluctant interviewee to the Manchester airport for the flight to Washington, Rudman discovered that his famously parsimonious friend had only $3 in his wallet.—
Barbara A. Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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“Mingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mingy. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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