hard-fisted
adjective
stingy; miserly; closefisted.
hardfisted
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a variation of
hard-fisted.
Example Sentences
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In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision.
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Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton.
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Where the hardhearted, hardfisted, leather-lunged 'sundowners' who could spit into the teeth of a gale?
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Brassy and hardfisted, he soon caught the eye of Yerex, who made him his personal bodyguard and general handyman.
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Upping of gold requirements was a hardfisted move to correct a defect in the original plan and safeguard the central fund against loss of its gold reserve.
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