Closehanded
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Closehanded is an adjective meaning Covetous; penurious; stingy.
Meaning
Covetous; penurious; stingy.
More Meanings
- Secretive.
- Closely, directly.
- (obsolete) Involving close proximity.
Example Sentences
...a closehanded battle, or tumult, in which the ditferent parties are confusedly mired together, and fight, as we say, pellmell.
As a reporter, I became aware of the problems whistleblowers face closehanded back when I was covering government and local government in Des Moines, Iowa.
The most famous of the roods was that of Boxley in Kent, which used to smile and bow, or frown and shake its head, as its worshippers were generous or closehanded.
Ye need not be so closehanded of anything I send you: ye may communicate them to whom ye will, for I am little concerned if they be published under others' name or not.
Word Forms
- close-handed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include close-handed, hard-fisted, close-fisted, narrow, close, strait-handed.
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