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synonyms for close-fisted

  • cheap
  • close-handed
  • hard-fisted
  • mean
  • miserly
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • pinching
  • tight
  • tightfisted
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.
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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 MOLL
Who 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 TROLLOPE
He 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 BASSETT
A 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. JOYCE
I 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 SIMMS
They ARE pretty close-fisted here, for a fact, but you can manage to rub along somehow.
THE DAMNATION OF THERON WAREHAROLD FREDERIC
The adventurers were apt to be of a sordid class, ravenous, close-fisted, little likely to make themselves beloved.
IRISH HISTORY AND THE IRISH QUESTIONGOLDWIN SMITH
You 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 GRAHAM
People of her class are generally pretty close-fisted, and she will look upon this as a little pocket-money.
WITH LEE IN VIRGINIAG. A. HENTY
If the average farmer is what may be described as "close-fisted," old Zack was "cement-fisted."
THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON BATTLE PRACTICEJOHN HENRY GOLDFRAP
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO CLOSE-FISTED

  • cheap
  • close
  • close-fisted
  • frugal
  • miserly
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • pinching
  • tight
  • tightfisted
  • acquisitive
  • avaricious
  • avid
  • close-fisted
  • covetous
  • desirous
  • extortionate
  • grabby
  • itchy
  • mean
  • miserly
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • prehensile
  • rapacious
  • selfish
  • stingy
  • tightfisted
  • usurious
  • venal
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.