mingy

adjective

ˈmin-jē How to pronounce mingy (audio)
Definition of mingynext
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 Synonyms for mingy
  1. careful
  2. miserly
  3. ungenerous
  4. selfish
  5. stingy
  6. greedy
  7. tightfisted
  8. parsimonious
Adjective
  • Along with potentially leeching microplastics into your food, plastic food storage containers absorb stains, odors, and flavors, and many require careful hand-washing to prevent them from warping.
    — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Gallery visitors were careful not to step on the sprawling assemblage of photographs, drawings and artifacts scattered across the floor.
    — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of careful
Adjective
  • When not making inflammatory political statements, United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe is committed to a miserly mantra of cost-saving prudence.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The plot involves two sons of rich, miserly fathers in love with girls their fathers will never approve of and what happens when the fathers’ devious servants decide to give the boys a hand.
    — Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026
Definition of miserly
Adjective
  • In my own cautionary tale, Sister needs redemption as much as Scrooge does; events of the past have made her bitter, ungenerous, and generally no fun to be around.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Despite recent increases, the state pension is relatively ungenerous, though Britons do have good private pensions.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of ungenerous
Adjective
  • Also on Weekend Update, James Austin Johnson portrayed a selfish Kevin O’Leary, the Shark Tank investor who is backing a massive data center campus in northwest Utah.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2026
  • That’s also how Violet is thinking about their portrayal of Maureen, whose eccentric performance art and selfish behavior often give the character a bad rap.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of selfish
Adjective
  • The Mountaineers were held to 125 yards in the first half by the Big 12’s stingiest defense and were outgained 484-272.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Mexico’s stingy defense at the World Cup was a big part of its early success.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of stingy
Adjective
  • The greedy Colonel Pyncheon accused a man named Matthew Maule of witchcraft, in order to steal his property.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The toys were not purloined, kidnapped, auctioned by Sotheby's or flipped by greedy collectors on eBay.
    — STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of greedy
Adjective
  • Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by the characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The ambience reflects Hankey’s tightfisted approach to his seven companies, which include a Toyota dealership, a dealer management software developer and Midway Car Rental, which does a big business renting exotic cars.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021
Definition of tightfisted
Adjective
  • The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings.
    — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • This one seemed slow and turgid, and the Australian attack was parsimonious, with only the sixth bowler used, Ash Gardner, going at more than 10 runs an over in her three overs.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of parsimonious
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