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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard-fisted, such as: acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, and churlish.
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 SINCLAIRDespite this, the Americans are hard-fisted, shrewd, and as a nation a match for any in the field of cunning.
AS A CHINAMAN SAW USANONYMOUSCan'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) MOLIEREAnd yet he was, to all outward appearances, a singularly repulsive and hard-fisted old miser.
AMERICAN MEN OF MINDBURTON E. STEVENSONHe 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 ORCZYWe got out uv the region uv aristocrats, and hed come down to the hard-fisted yomanry.
SWINGIN ROUND THE CIRKLE.PETROLEUM V. NASBYI 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 TALMAGEHis arguments were good, but he could not convince the hard-fisted magistrates of the righteousness of his cause.
FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFSCHARLES H. L. JOHNSTONA strong garrison was appointed of long-sided, hard-fisted Yankees, with Weathersfield onions for cockades and feathers.
KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK, COMPLETEWASHINGTON IRVINGAm I to continue picking up the guineas of these hard-fisted rustics?
THE LADY OF LYNNWALTER BESANTWORDS RELATED TO HARD-FISTED
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- chary
- cheap
- chintzy
- churlish
- close
- close-fisted
- costive
- covetous
- curmudgeonly
- economical
- extortionate
- frugal
- grasping
- greedy
- grudging
- hard-fisted
- ignoble
- illiberal
- ironfisted
- mean
- miserly
- narrow
- near
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- pennywise
- penurious
- petty
- pinchpenny
- rapacious
- saving
- scrimping
- scurvy
- selfish
- skimping
- sordid
- sparing
- thrifty
- tight
- tightfisted
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- ungiving
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.