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

He could not help but smile when he thought of the hard-fisted money-lender, and what he might say when his son went at the task of making him more kind and benevolent.

From Dave Porter in the Gold Fields or, The Search for the Landslide Mine by Rogers, Walter S.