hard-fisted

Example Sentences

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Franco died in 1975, and most of the country rejoiced at the end of 36 years of hard-fisted dictatorship, a protracted coming out party that culminated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2017

A team without a superstar beat Kansas as a hard-fisted unit.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2016

The paper's business side "sometimes complained good-naturedly that it was hard to know if Dave was the hard-fisted business publisher or was the editor in him still too sympathetic to the editorial side," Coffey said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2015

Ambitious, hard-fisted men who had flocked to the Gulf Coast jostled against the established French colonial families in a bruising struggle for land and power.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2011

In the same chapter we are told "de quodam viro divite tenacissimo"—of a very hard-fisted rich fellow—a term thoroughly significant in civilised times.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill