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closefisted
or close-fisted
[ klohs-fis-tid ]
adjective
- stingy; miserly; tight.
Synonyms: ,
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦±ô´Ç²õ±ðf¾±²õ³ÙĻå·±ô²â adverb
- ³¦±ô´Ç²õ±ðf¾±²õ³ÙĻå·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of closefisted1
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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.
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It might have been nice to have had more respite to appreciate Mays’s closefisted Scrooge, his liberal Cratchit and sweet Fan.
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These games are going to be tightfisted and closefisted.
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He was naturally a closefisted man, and bad business had made him more miserly than ever.
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Whatever an air of indifference he would assume in his grandee role of "art collector," yet in most other matters he was inveterately closefisted.
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