closefisted

• “Someone, somewhere, is telling Americans that closefisted tipping is tolerated, even celebrated here.”

  The Huffington Post: Ali Fitzgerald: The Plague Of American Cheapskates

• “While the written record is somewhat closefisted with specific evidence of women's involvement in larger-scale collective actions, it is more generous in relation to smaller-scale events.”

  Gutenber-e Help Page

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

  Travels through France and Italy

• “An iron hand is rule that is rigid, stubborn, severe, even cruel; iron-fisted has an additional connotation of “parsimonious, closefisted, niggardly.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “You have held nothing back, I realize that now, and I want to throw caution and concern out of my heart so that I can be generous and openhanded like You, instead of fearful and closefisted.”

  Simon & Schuster: HEAVENLY MAIL Words of Promise from God

• “For all he was a closefisted and shut-hearted man, she knew the look of trouble when she saw it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

• “Colby was a humorless, efficient, closefisted man, Luke found, far more eager to bring money into the estate — and it was extremely prosperous — than to spend.”

  Heartless

• “Was the spell for preserving the venom so difficult to bring about, or were the God-Men merely being closefisted with their magic as was their custom?”

  Conan and The Gods of The Mountain

• “Having been brought up by a hard, closefisted man like Arsheesh, he had a fixed habit of never telling grown-ups anything if he could help it: he thought they would always spoil or stop whatever you were trying to do.”

  The Horse And His Boy

• “The Commissioners had great difficulty in dealing with Burns, who owned nearly all of what is now the northwestern section of the city, as he was a closefisted and hardheaded Scotchman, who was unwilling to part with his lands without being roundly paid for them.”

  As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

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