tightfisted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The industry’s latest acquisitions, well below $10 billion, reflect a more tightfisted approach to dealmaking than previous periods, when big companies regularly spent tens of billions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Davis was a centrist who tried to be tightfisted.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
The programme also captures the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joking with a group of builders that Ms Reeves is the "moneybags" and she is "tightfisted".
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2022
It wasn’t his fault — a villein only gets what the lord lets him keep, and our lord was tightfisted.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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