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Definition of Hardfisted
1. Adjective. Unwilling to part with money.
Similar to: Stingy, Ungenerous
Derivative terms: Tightfistedness
Definition of Hardfisted
1. a. Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
Definition of Hardfisted
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardfisted
Literary usage of Hardfisted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Applied to persons, it means diminutive, under- grown, or ill-thriven ; or to
characters, miserly, hardfisted. ..."
2. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"Of course the characteristic Northern hardheaded, hardfisted humor, the Northern
power of presenting the deepest truths in the most homely grotesques, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"The one, a pale-eyed and hardfisted Scotch-Canadian, lean, wolfish, unrelenting
to the uttermost, was possessed of a nature as cold and dour and dogged as ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1890)
"And where the representative is often elected again, " The most hardfisted,
disagreeably by those who do not pay the taxes, the restless, ..."
5. The History of Protective Tariff Laws by Richard Wigginton Thompson (1888)
"This handbill proclaimed to those whom some of our friends on the other side are
fond of speaking of as ' the hardfisted Democracy of the country,' that ..."
6. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses by Dept. of Education, Louisiana, Louisiana Dept. of Education, Louisiana Teachers' Association (1908)
"... "Republic" or a thorough knowledge of the "Iliad"' will not enable the money
sharks "hardfisted" on the "'Change" to- strike a hard bargain. ..."
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