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See definition of hard fisted on Dictionary.com
  • as inclose-fisted
  • as inhard-fisted
  • as inpinching

synonyms for hard fisted

  • cheap
  • close-handed
  • hard-fisted
  • mean
  • miserly
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • pinching
  • tight
  • tightfisted
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On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard fisted, such as: cheap, close-handed, hard-fisted, mean, miserly, and parsimonious.
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How to use hard fisted in a sentence

There came other guests: a German, hard-fisted, bullet-headed—editor of an East Side labor-paper.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIR
Despite this, the Americans are hard-fisted, shrewd, and as a nation a match for any in the field of cunning.
AS A CHINAMAN SAW USANONYMOUS
Can't you name some one in this town who is known to be the most hard-fisted old miser in the place?
THE IMPOSTURES OF SCAPIN(POQUELIN) MOLIERE
And yet he was, to all outward appearances, a singularly repulsive and hard-fisted old miser.
AMERICAN MEN OF MINDBURTON E. STEVENSON
He knew that in a hand-to-hand fight he was no match for that heavy-framed, hard-fisted product of a fog-ridden land.
THE BRONZE EAGLEEMMUSKA ORCZY, BARONESS ORCZY
We got out uv the region uv aristocrats, and hed come down to the hard-fisted yomanry.
SWINGIN ROUND THE CIRKLE.PETROLEUM V. NASBY
I meet this delegate of a relief society coming out of the store of such a hard-fisted man, and I say, "Did you get the money?"
THE WEDDING RINGT. DE WITT TALMAGE
His arguments were good, but he could not convince the hard-fisted magistrates of the righteousness of his cause.
FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFSCHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON
A strong garrison was appointed of long-sided, hard-fisted Yankees, with Weathersfield onions for cockades and feathers.
KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK, COMPLETEWASHINGTON IRVING
Am I to continue picking up the guineas of these hard-fisted rustics?
THE LADY OF LYNNWALTER BESANT
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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