closefisted
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- closefistedly adverb
- closefistedness noun
Etymology
Origin of closefisted
Example Sentences
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The best example was the Pullman Sleeping Car strike of 1894, which was provoked by the monstrously closefisted George Pullman and was poised to expand into a nationwide rail strike.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
It might have been nice to have had more respite to appreciate Mays’s closefisted Scrooge, his liberal Cratchit and sweet Fan.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Normally closefisted, Louis showered money on her innumerable "projects"�the porcelain factory of S�vres, paintings, sculptures, villas, rewards and pensions for artists and builders�a grand total, it is said, of 36 million livres.
From Time Magazine Archive
For all his effect on the pious, closefisted French Canadian farm folk of Monk's Inlet, the Stranger is really only a literary device.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever an air of indifference he would assume in his grandee role of "art collector," yet in most other matters he was inveterately closefisted.
From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Myers, Gustavus
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