closefisted

Example Sentences

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022

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

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Washington knows Dr. Bridge as an able surgeon and a closefisted, hard-driving businessman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a majority, perhaps, of the really open-handed he shared one trait with the closefisted and even with the very mean rich.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)