close-fisted
Example Sentences
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I ain't a close-fisted chap, especially when I'm fond of anybody.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
You are a close-fisted, bad woman—as bad as they make them.
From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
You've spent a lot of the money you're so close-fisted about, and will have to travel cheap if you mean getting home again.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Especially if she married a close-fisted young business man like Joe Stagg would this be true.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
Mr. Bumpkin looked for a few moments without speaking, and then said: “He wur allays a close-fisted un, and I should reckon have a goodish bit o’ property.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
