How to Use tightfisted in a Sentence

tightfisted

adjective

• The company's tightfisted owner won't raise the workers' salaries.
• For the most part, the Bidwill family of owners made the tightfisted Halas look like Santa Claus.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
• This threat, in turn, helps justify Putin’s tightfisted rule.
  — Aleksandar Matovski, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• The landscape of this Trainaceous Era was crammed with rogues, chancers, visionaries, and tightfisted despots.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• With so many factors weighing on growth, Beijing is going to have to loosen its tightfisted control on credit.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 24 June 2018
• Coty seems to lack L’Oréal’s marketing flair and has been too tightfisted with advertising.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• Many foreign airlines known for superior service and seating have gotten more tightfisted with award seats.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 17 May 2017
• But beneath the calm is a town under tightfisted control, enforced by militias accountable only to their paymasters.
  — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub and Dalia MartÍnez, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
• At tightfisted Amazon, there were no big bonuses at year’s end, no business-class flights for executives on long hauls, no employee kitchens overflowing with protein bars.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• To get that partial reimbursement, many farmers had to deal with tightfisted local officials.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Cal Jillson, a Dallas professor who has written a book about Texas' tightfisted approach to budgeting, said a reason state leaders ask for lists of possible cuts is to probe for which programs can be jettisoned.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020
• 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, 22 June 2018
• In the past month, top leaders have encouraged local governments to restart projects that had been halted due to previous tightfisted policies, while China’s central bank has been pumping funds into the financial system.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• Banks don’t lend to new businesses, especially restaurants, not because banks are mean or especially tightfisted.
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• In many cases, airlines—historically 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, 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, 15 Aug. 2017

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