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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Under Jones’ careful direction, the Bulldogs do not beat themselves.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Effective brainstorming sessions require careful planning and prep.—
Nora Herting,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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With the arrival of pitchers and catchers, one of the coldest and miserly baseball offseasons in memory is nearing conclusion, and it can’t be understated that, other than the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets (on one player), hardly any team spent any money.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
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One of the things that bedeviled American politics this century is our close elections, which has made our parties and their leaders miserly with their political capital.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But neither can anyone seriously accuse the United States of being ungenerous with its citizens’ lives and treasure or of having no ideals.—
Joshua Landis,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Jan. 2016
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This is the problem with the show: These women are just concocting reasons why the people on the other side suck, and it’s become the most uncharitable, the most ungenerous thing on Bravo.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
15 July 2024
Adjective
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Liberals without children fear they are seen as selfish careerists or libertines.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Dropping this much weight in such a short amount of time is both dangerous and, according to his teammates, selfish.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Continuous Development And Growth Never be lax or stingy about ongoing training, coaching and development opportunities for team members.—
Levi King,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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That’s nearly 14 percent better than Georgia normally shoots and nearly 20 percent better than the usually stingy Gators allow.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Consciously or not, Orsolya has played an active role in such urban growth; her job is to evict people from the lots that have been gobbled up by the government and/or greedy real estate developers who want to turn them into condos, chain stores, and luxury hotels.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
19 Feb. 2025
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Many of the Bronx’s Jews were not just liberals but leftists, leading rent strikes against greedy landlords.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Feb. 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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To attribute the corrosion of institutional trust to such bugbears as relativism or postmodernism is to ignore explanations that are both more concrete and more parsimonious.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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In a perfect and parsimonious world, a single two-stage spacecraft would land on Mars, scoop up soil samples in situ, and transfer them to an ascent stage which would blast off into orbit.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Mingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mingy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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