Oh, come on ,it's less than twenty quid - don't be 'mingy' !.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Your Chipmunk Merchandise Here!] Reference

Summed up like that, his life seemed a rather scant and mingy thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [George RR Martin Quote of the Day - 10/6/2008] Reference

The corruption culture in Illinois tends to be mingy, pedestrian, shameful.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Battle For the Basement] Reference

Are these mingy little beasts, I thought, the champions of the working class?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

They are treating me so well, and they are such nice people, it's hard to find anything mingy to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm telling you, it wasn't my idea ...] Reference

It didn't even have the mingy footnotes that were no help in junior high, but would have been better than nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer Loviglio: The Bard, But Not As Hard] Reference

Shot digitally on a mingy budget, it looks start-of-the-art Hollywood --- just raw and unvarnished, like Hollywood never is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Winter's Bone Is the Best Movie I've Seen This Year (Or Hope to)] Reference

To attempt an exorcism would be silly, the genie reasoned; would some mingy prelate be able to override the power of Solomon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Demonkeeping]

‘Because when I feel the human world is doomed, has doomed itself by its own mingy beastliness, then I feel the Colonies aren’t far enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

Some have already shown that they are more interested in their mingy in-fighting and the construction of small-minded, inward-looking European Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Bush continues to disappoint (not!)] Reference

The mother, the Angela of the title, begged for charity and lived off the mingy help of relatives, at one point sleeping with a cousin so that her children might have a place to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [From 'Ashes' To Stardom] Reference

This mingy display of 4,000 stars commemorating the dead and missing may have been the result of Mr.St. Florian's desire, as he related to me, to have the memorial seen as "joyful" and "a celebration of democracy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyewitness to a War Memorial] Reference

By the time of his involvement with Rebecca West, the popular success of his books was making Wells rich and "to put it," says Mr. West, "crassly, he tried to buy her off," though she thought the sum he offered "mingy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wells and Women] Reference

This mingy display of 4,000 stars commemorating the dead and missing may have been the result of Mr.St. Florian's stated desire, as he related to me, to have the memorial seen as "joyful" and "a celebration of democracy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyewitness to a War Memorial] Reference

From 1976 to 1984, Sony fought tooth and nail for the right of Americans to record video off their televisions; today, Sony is part of the RIAA's efforts to stifle innovation and contract fair use to a sorry, mingy speck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 19, 2003 - January 25, 2003 Archives] Reference

Gwen, sitting rumpled and uncomfortable on the forest floor where she'd been unceremoniously dropped, watched the bandits moving about the mingy little campfire they were building and nervously told herself not to be a fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Gate]

First day of Swampitude and the left-wing blogosphere -- which is overpopulated by illiberal leftists and reactionary progressives -- is already attacking me: 24 mostly mingy comments about my Left Behind post, many of which seem to be steaming off a post by Greg Sargent, who writes a blog called The Horse's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now that I have your attention - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

Writers themselves tend to be made uneasy by any suggestion of fieldwork, and to discourage the drawing of parallels between, say, their travel and their work; the direct connection carries the stigma of 'research,' of 'working something up,' and seems to imply not only a failure of the imagination but a certain mingy opportunism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discovery] Reference

But mean times don't necessarily mean mingy meals.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

…and I just won the HTML showdown throwdown thingy mingy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Procrastination Definition | My[confined]Space] Reference

(Think mingy milk you get in spain, boke, so no wonder i was excited).    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Given the mingy scale of this really ugly building, this might not be saying much.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference

Even if you succeed in accumulating a massive nest egg, would it be worthwhile if you led a mingy existence while doing so?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Oh and the spitting hasn't been as bad as I had feared, I thought it would be a hocky, mingy spitfest but it's only been a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

I always resented the implacability of the therapeutic "hour" (which translated into a mingy 50, or increasingly these days, 45 minutes at most), the way it commenced at some tediously calibrated moment, like 11: 10 or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

He used to lose his temper with great-aunt and sit snapping out mingy little digs at her until she got really riled and ordered him to his room as if he’d been a schoolboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police at the Funeral]

Thomas Keller, the chef at the French Laundry, in Napa Valley, says that sous vide is not a mingy time - and labor-saver; it’s a tool that gives chefs another worthy kitchen tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Frying Pan] Reference

‘No! They were a mingy lot.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

A mingy little fireplace for a little fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Side of Dark] Reference

But it's a mean, mingy thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Politics - Republican Party] Reference