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Definition of Tightfisted
1. Adjective. Unwilling to part with money.
Similar to: Stingy, Ungenerous
Derivative terms: Tightfistedness
Definition of Tightfisted
1. Adjective. alternative spelling of tight-fisted ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tightfisted
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tightfisted
Literary usage of Tightfisted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wayward Welfare State by Roger A. Freeman (1981)
"... disadvantaged, inadequate funds for public assistance, unemployment compensation
and other social welfare programs, a tightfisted policy on Medicare, ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"... too, were in the family councils, and must do their slender duty in helping
to make the fading flowers into a little, tightfisted clump; and all of this ..."
3. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"The Scots are supposed to be exceptionally tightfisted (an ethnic pejorative that
does not bother me), and I take no joy in spending money, especially on ..."
4. Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War by Richard G. Davis (1998)
"In addition to being isolated, Kuwait, because of its relatively tightfisted
monetary policies and abuse of contract laborers, was unpopular in the Arab ..."
5. The Parish Theatre: A Brief Account of Its Rise, Its Present Condition, and by John Talbot Smith (1917)
"The village expressman, the postmaster, the spiritualist lecturer, the constable,
the tightfisted deacon, the escaped lunatic, in contrast with the summer ..."
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