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
Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington knows Dr. Bridge as an able surgeon and a closefisted, hard-driving businessman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever an air of indifference he would assume in his grandee role of "art collector," yet in most other matters he was inveterately closefisted.
From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Myers, Gustavus
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