close-fisted
Example Sentences
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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
You've spent a lot of the money you're so close-fisted about, and will have to travel cheap if you mean getting home again.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Mama F�lix, then, was very close-fisted, and would never lend her daughter any money, except on very good security, namely, on her jewels.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
He who is close-fisted shall be treated in a like manner.
From Arabian Wisdom by Wortabet, John
Washington was accused of being close-fisted, but some one takes the ground that a man must close his fist if there is something in it that others were seeking by illegitimate means to get.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
