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
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
A much more tightfisted healthcare system means that the share of immigrants without insurance is far higher in Texas.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023
She has assumed such unappealing duties as overseeing who gets paid, with a hand that aides have described as tightfisted.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023
The carpentry shop remained a success—not only among the small, moneyed enclave of the Protectorate and the famously tightfisted Traders Association.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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