Crossword-Solution: CLOSEFISTED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Closefisted | a. | Covetous; niggardly. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with CLOSEFISTED (5)
Like a majority, perhaps, of the really open-handed he shared one trait with the closefisted and even with the very mean rich.
Whatever an air of indifference he would assume in his grandee role of "art collector," yet in most other matters he was inveterately closefisted.
The Commissioners had great difficulty in dealing with Burns, who owned nearly all of what is now the northwestern section of the city, as he was a closefisted and hardheaded Scotchman, who was unwilling to part with his lands without being roundly paid for them.
Williamson is raather too closefisted when he pays a bittie o’ the Duke’s siller.” The worst part of the story, as relates to ourselves, remains to be told, namely, that when they left a hard bargain was going on for the purchase of the terrier which had driven us out of our retreat, and he was to be taken to the kennel for the same employment when required, which, sure enough, was often the case.
They are hoarding, though liberal according to custom; but generally they are much disposed to be avaricious and closefisted.