What is "tightfisted"

Usage examples of "tightfisted".

Finally, the thunder in his chest eased, leaving behind a tightfisted ache.

Capitan Valdemar, notoriously grasping and tightfisted, had, under the circumstances, been content to allow Alacrity to deadhead on the voyage, since there was plenty of space available.

Not that I was in lack of funds, but when those tightfisted burghers had their own money involved, you can be sure that they would give it their best effort!

Andrew was a hard-driving, tightfisted businessman, but no one was out to get him or found to have profited significantly from his death.

Moreover, it was obvious he would ask for money, and I am tightfisted and not ashamed to admit it.

Can you spare me some oats for my horse, or will your tightfisted lord beat you for it?

Rigid, combative fanatic that he is, the tightfisted Backson is just too hard on himself, too hard on others, and too hard on the world that heroically attempts to carry on in spite of what he is doing to it.

Father was too tightfisted to hire extra help for me, and too full of pride to settle for anything less than a princely wedding feast.