Examples of tightfisted in a Sentence
The company's tightfisted owner won't raise the workers' salaries.
the company is pretty tightfisted when it comes to bonuses
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Every year, a complacent, tightfisted city council turned down the recommendations.
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Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
The other period that defined her time in power was Europe’s debt crisis, and her tightfisted prescription for long years of painful budget cuts as a way out of it — something many southern Europeans still have not forgiven her for more than a decade later.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by the characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
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Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
The other period that defined her time in power was Europe’s debt crisis, and her tightfisted prescription for long years of painful budget cuts as a way out of it — something many southern Europeans still have not forgiven her for more than a decade later.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by the characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
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“Tightfisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tightfisted. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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tightfisted
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tight·fist·ed
ˈtīt-ˈfis-təd 
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