hardfisted
- a variation of hard-fisted.
Example Sentences
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Where the hardhearted, hardfisted, leather-lunged 'sundowners' who could spit into the teeth of a gale?
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Last week, hardfisted, hardheaded old Fred Dumaine disdainfully spat on the hot fire stirred up under him at the New Haven's annual meeting.
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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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Because of sharp inflation and a mounting balance-of-payments deficit, the central bank has introduced hardfisted monetary policies.
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But when the desperate hours have passed, rival courtiers and politicians complain against the tough little Premier's hardfisted ways, and out he goes.
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