tightfisted

Example Sentences

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The industry’s latest acquisitions, well below $10 billion, reflect a more tightfisted approach to dealmaking than previous periods, when big companies regularly spent tens of billions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

It wasn’t his fault — a villein only gets what the lord lets him keep, and our lord was tightfisted.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz