Definition of "tightfistedness" [tightfistedness]

• Meanness. Lack of generosity (noun)

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• "If there is a silver lining to be drawn from these twin failures, it is this - the Senate was evenhanded in its tightfistedness."
• "But in anticipation of tightfistedness among electronics consumers, retailers are already cutting prices sharply, as many analysts have been predicting since early in the fall."
• "That way they might come to understand the need for a return to the Scottish virtues of prudence and, dare one say it, tightfistedness which virtues are espoused by classical conservative policy."