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

Davis was a centrist who tried to be tightfisted.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

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

She has assumed such unappealing duties as overseeing who gets paid, with a hand that aides have described as tightfisted.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023

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