| 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. |
| By the end of Schiff's reign at the paper, however, the Post had come to reflect her worst qualities, especially her tightfistedness. |
| One wants Mother Courage to love him because he accepts her and her tightfistedness. |
| 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. |
| As she stood at the betting window for the first race, her tightfistedness was apparent. |
| Nonetheless, Chinese vacillation and tightfistedness led to still more warfare and military disasters, which on several occasions would have ended the Ming dynasty. |
