Definitions for hard-fisted

hard-fisted hard-fist·ed

Spelling: [hahrd-fis-tid]
IPA: /ˈhɑrdˈfɪs tɪd/

Hard-Fisted is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 773 anagrams from letters in hard-fisted (-addefhirst).

Definitions for hard-fisted

adjective

  1. stingy; miserly; closefisted.
  2. tough-minded; ruthless:
  3. having hard or strong hands, as a laborer.

Origin of hard-fisted

First recorded in 1650-60

Examples for hard-fisted

This presently brought them in sight of a large farm which belonged to a hard-fisted man named Elias Lacy.

Despite this, the Americans are hard-fisted, shrewd, and as a nation a match for any in the field of cunning.

He was a man of endless secret benevolence, and posed all the time as a hard-fisted person and a miser.

Surely these glistening worlds cannot be hard-fisted planets like our own, holding a close schedule across the sky.

How could he for a moment stay in face of these direct and hard-fisted attacks?

Needless to say, it was a popular position with the hard-fisted skippers.

Callovan inherited his wealth from his hard-fisted old father, who had died but a year before.

He was, at most times, a hard-fisted one, and no mistake about it.

It is the incarnation of a hard-hearted, hard-fisted, hard-voiced miser.

Am I to continue picking up the guineas of these hard-fisted rustics?

Word Value for hard-fisted
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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