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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to close-fisted, such as: cheap, close-handed, hard-fisted, mean, miserly, and parsimonious.
How to use close-fisted in a sentence
With this girl I shared all my possessions, although before I knew her I had been considered close-fisted.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILDALBERT MOLLWho has stood your friend with your close-fisted old father when you have lost money at play that you could not pay?
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPEHe had the reputation of being shrewd, close-fisted, and sharp at a bargain,—a person of few friends and many enemies.
PAUL AND THE PRINTING PRESSSARA WARE BASSETTA satirical expression regarding a close-fisted ungenerous man:—'If he had only an egg he'd give you the shell.'
ENGLISH AS WE SPEAK IT IN IRELANDP. W. JOYCEI told him every man on his own hook, now—for, you see, I couldn't stand his close-fisted contrivances no longer.
GUY RIVERS: A TALE OF GEORGIAWILLIAM GILMORE SIMMSThey ARE pretty close-fisted here, for a fact, but you can manage to rub along somehow.
THE DAMNATION OF THERON WAREHAROLD FREDERICThe adventurers were apt to be of a sordid class, ravenous, close-fisted, little likely to make themselves beloved.
IRISH HISTORY AND THE IRISH QUESTIONGOLDWIN SMITHYou and the girls wouldn't want me to be close-fisted and overreachin', even if I am poor.
THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIESMARGARET COLLIER GRAHAMPeople of her class are generally pretty close-fisted, and she will look upon this as a little pocket-money.
WITH LEE IN VIRGINIAG. A. HENTYIf the average farmer is what may be described as "close-fisted," old Zack was "cement-fisted."
THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON BATTLE PRACTICEJOHN HENRY GOLDFRAPWORDS RELATED TO CLOSE-FISTED
- 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
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.