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close-fisted
adjective as in stingy
adjective as in miserly
adjective as in penurious
adjective as in stingy
Strong match
adjective as in thrifty
adjective as in close-fisted
adjective as in costive
adjective as in grabby
adjective as in hard-fisted
adjective as in hoggish
adjective as in piggish
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- 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
- tight-fisted
- voracious
adjective as in pinching
adjective as in covetous
adjective as in grasping
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- 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
- tight-fisted
- voracious
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Example Sentences
With this girl I shared all my possessions, although before I knew her I had been considered close-fisted.
Who has stood your friend with your close-fisted old father when you have lost money at play that you could not pay?
He had the reputation of being shrewd, close-fisted, and sharp at a bargain,—a person of few friends and many enemies.
A satirical expression regarding a close-fisted ungenerous man:—'If he had only an egg he'd give you the shell.'
I told him every man on his own hook, now—for, you see, I couldn't stand his close-fisted contrivances no longer.
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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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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