| By the end of Schiff's reign at the paper, however, the Post had come to reflect her worst qualities, especially her tightfistedness. |
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| Another high-impact topic, cost control, also went negative as the media started to equate the company's tightfistedness less with low prices and more with offshoring. |
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| Nonetheless, Chinese vacillation and tightfistedness led to still more warfare and military disasters, which on several occasions would have ended the Ming dynasty. |
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| Freehandedness is a virtue concerned with the getting and the giving of wealth, especially the latter, and is the mean between the two vices of prodigality and tightfistedness. |
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| One wants Mother Courage to love him because he accepts her and her tightfistedness. |
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| As she stood at the betting window for the first race, her tightfistedness was apparent. |
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| Mr Manuel hopes to keep his hard-won reputation as a cautious and responsible manager of the economy, but argues that his past tightfistedness has given him scope to loosen up a bit now. |
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| Additionally, his tightfistedness with players' pay came to be seen as the primary reason why the Black Sox were receptive to throwing the World Series in the first place. |
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