closefisted
Example Sentences
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The best example was the Pullman Sleeping Car strike of 1894, which was provoked by the monstrously closefisted George Pullman and was poised to expand into a nationwide rail strike.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
It might have been nice to have had more respite to appreciate Mays’s closefisted Scrooge, his liberal Cratchit and sweet Fan.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
For all his effect on the pious, closefisted French Canadian farm folk of Monk's Inlet, the Stranger is really only a literary device.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was naturally a closefisted man, and bad business had made him more miserly than ever.
From Leo the Circus Boy by Stratemeyer, Edward
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
