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tight-fisted
adjective as in close
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Strong matches
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- ravening
- ravenous
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- voracious
adjective as in mean
adjective as in piggish
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- voracious
adjective as in sparing
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Example Sentences
All of this was unsurprising: the terrifically wealthy singer is both notoriously prickly and embarrassingly tight-fisted.
Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!
This Cobb man is a tight-fisted old bachelor, they say, but his milk of human kindness may not be all skimmed.
If he was tight-fisted wanst, he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall.
Every angle of his was a right angle, even if he did grow a bit tight-fisted sometimes for his family's sake.
Only they would rather have died than have applied to the Lorilleuxs, for they knew they were too tight-fisted.
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On this page you'll find 161 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tight-fisted, such as: tight, mean, narrow, penny-pinching, skinflint, and chintzy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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