tightfisted
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Synonyms
cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, uncharitable, ungenerous
Antonyms
bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting
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For the most part, the Bidwill family of owners made the tightfisted Halas look like Santa Claus. — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, "Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 34, Paddy Driscoll," 30 July 2019 Coty seems to lack LâOrĂ©alâs marketing flair and has been too tightfisted with advertising. — Carol Ryan, WSJ, "Beauty Sectorâs Uglier Stocks Deserve Second Look," 12 July 2019 In the past month, top leaders have encouraged local governments to restart projects that had been halted due to previous tightfisted policies, while Chinaâs central bank has been pumping funds into the financial system. — Chao Deng, WSJ, "Chinese Banks Rev Up Lending to Buoy Economy in U.S. Trade Fight," 11 Aug. 2018 But beneath the calm is a town under tightfisted control, enforced by militias accountable only to their paymasters. — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub And Dalia MartĂnez, New York Times, "Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away," 7 Jan. 2018 With so many factors weighing on growth, Beijing is going to have to loosen its tightfisted control on credit. — Chao Deng, WSJ, "China Eases Credit Policy as U.S. Tariffs Near," 24 June 2018 The international restaurant guide is so tightfisted with its stars that only seven Bay Area restaurants hold such an honor (another seven restaurants have the maximum of three). — Jonathan Kauffman, SFChronicle.com, "BaumĂ© in Palo Alto has two Michelin stars â and only two staff," 22 June 2018 In many cases, airlinesâhistorically tightfisted with customers and with few government requirements on compensation in the U.S.--have upped their compensation for inconveniences and misdeeds. — Scott Mccartney, WSJ, "At Southwest Airlines, the Minutes After Disaster Struck," 24 Apr. 2018 By December, Boeing was pledging $1 million from an otherwise tightfisted corporate treasury for Trump inauguration events. — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, "How Charlottesville and Trump reveal CEO character," 15 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tightfisted.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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