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hard-fisted
[ hahrd-fis-tid ]
adjective
- stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- tough-minded; ruthless:
hard-fisted revolutionists.
- having hard or strong hands, as a laborer.
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Other Words From
- hard-fisted·ness hardfisted·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hard-fisted1
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Example Sentences
There came other guests: a German, hard-fisted, bullet-headed—editor of an East Side labor-paper.
Despite this, the Americans are hard-fisted, shrewd, and as a nation a match for any in the field of cunning.
Can't you name some one in this town who is known to be the most hard-fisted old miser in the place?
And yet he was, to all outward appearances, a singularly repulsive and hard-fisted old miser.
He knew that in a hand-to-hand fight he was no match for that heavy-framed, hard-fisted product of a fog-ridden land.
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