closefisted

The best example was the Pullman Sleeping Car strike of 1894, which was provoked by the monstrously closefisted George Pullman and was poised to expand into a nationwide rail strike.

It might have been nice to have had more respite to appreciate Mays’s closefisted Scrooge, his liberal Cratchit and sweet Fan.

These games are going to be tightfisted and closefisted.

He was naturally a closefisted man, and bad business had made him more miserly than ever.

Whatever an air of indifference he would assume in his grandee role of "art collector," yet in most other matters he was inveterately closefisted.