close-fisted

Example Sentences

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The close-fisted aristocrat felt himself fairly driven into a corner.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

The adventurers were apt to be of a sordid class, ravenous, close-fisted, little likely to make themselves beloved.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

He is accus'd of being close-fisted, and of dissuading the Elector from giving Gratuities; but 'tis agreed that he is very charitable to the Poor.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

I finally learned that an officer was considered by many other officers as a little off color if he was close-fisted and tried to save money out of his pay.

From Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago by McKay, Robert Henderson

I certainly don’t like old Father Fletcher, close-fisted as he is, and stingy as any miser ever I met.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon