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
Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him.
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
Like a majority, perhaps, of the really open-handed he shared one trait with the closefisted and even with the very mean rich.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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