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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China walked a careful diplomatic line during the conflict.
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All that plus nightly turndown service and 24-hour room service reflect the careful attention paid to guests at Moon Palace The Grand—Cancun.
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Koenig’s former Yankees teammates were contemptuous of that miserly decision.
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The film is set in Mumbai and built around a miserly protagonist whose circumstances spiral into escalating absurdity.
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Suzanne’s ungenerous view of herself is one of many misperceptions that will be overturned—some gently, some not.
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Here’s the resulting exchange: RC Women writers frequently adopt a tone or an attitude toward their female characters which is somewhat negative and ungenerous.
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The article emphasizes that securing one's own financial future isn't selfish but essential to avoid becoming a future burden.
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Experts emphasize that self-care is not selfish.
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Best Amazon Pants Deals As classic as jeans are, there are other, less restrictive bottoms out there — and Prime Day isn’t being stingy with its sales.
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Nature with its blind eyes and greedy fingers.
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At his sentencing in 2024, Bailyn, the prosecutor, described Lorquet as a greedy criminal who fleeced his country at one of its weakest moments in history.
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Every year, a complacent, tightfisted city council turned down the recommendations.
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Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.
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This is the most parsimonious way to account for the unified nature of consciousness, according to subcorticalists.
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What fraction visible at basically every U.S. gas station originated as a parsimonious response to a 1932 one-penny gas tax?
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“Mingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mingy. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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