Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tightfisted; stingy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having hard or strong hands, as a laborer.
- Close-fisted; covetous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having hard or strong hands.
- adjective Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having hard or strong hands.
- adjective
covetous ;niggardly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unwilling to part with money
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Examples
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The most characteristic thing about Kipling is his love of actuality, his intense practicality, his proper and necessary respect for the hard-headed, hard-fisted fact.
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The rebel defeat echoes the experiences of other nations, from Colombia to Russia, where hard-fisted tactics defeated extremist foes.
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His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Mr. Putin's hard-fisted rule today bookends his earlier career with the Soviet Union's state security apparatus, the KGB.
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His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Weary of war and the hard-fisted neo-Taliban, they yearn for something a little better for their children, just as Canadians do.
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His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Weary of war and the hard-fisted neo-Taliban, they yearn for something a little better for their children, just as Canadians do.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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