tightfisted
Example Sentences
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Tens of millions of foreigners visit each year and domestic travel is rising, but some visitors are tightfisted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The programme also captures the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joking with a group of builders that Ms Reeves is the "moneybags" and she is "tightfisted".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
Bingo Long and Leon Carter in 1939 lead a group of Black baseball players defecting from the Negro League and their tightfisted team owners, with the barnstorming squad challenging white counterparts in pickup games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
The carpentry shop remained a success—not only among the small, moneyed enclave of the Protectorate and the famously tightfisted Traders Association.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
