Of course, no amount of tightfistedness could damage Astaire's most important legacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sultan of Suave] Reference

If there is a silver lining to be drawn from these twin failures, it is this - the Senate was evenhanded in its tightfistedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandip Roy: Don't Ask Don't Dream] Reference

She had pleased our parents by marrying for money, and hadn't discovered her husband's fanatical tightfistedness until afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying Finish]

The company's reputation for micromanagement and tightfistedness has made top talent reluctant to make movies with Mickey on a per-picture basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Walt Spinning In His Grave?] Reference

Disguise your tightfistedness by hiring a whole load of local lads to also paddle their canoes along with you, providing that much needed "atmosphere".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

But, in an episode of embarrassing and unnecessary tightfistedness, it has frozen enrollment in a badly needed state health insurance program for low-income children.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2004] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Headstart: The electronics deals are starting early] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-05] Reference

Attendance had never been spectacular in Washington — Griffith says the club drew a million only once in the family's fifty years there — and the Old Fox was developing a reputation for tightfistedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Pure Baseball Men] Reference

Support for Pawlenty's tightfistedness has eroded, according to one pollster.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Obi's major handicap is his tightfistedness (he's derisively called "aka gum").    From Wordnik.com.  [Thisday Online] Reference

One reason is tightfistedness by consumers who are worried that the economy and their job prospects will stay weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

He'll be remembered for how his tragic youth illustrated the extent of his billionaire grandfather's tightfistedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

THERE can be few more extraordinary sights than politicians indulging in a fit of tightfistedness ahead of an election.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Most survey respondents complained about their employers 'extreme tightfistedness, not only regarding money but also kindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

If there is a silver lining to be drawn from these twin failures, it is this -- the Senate was evenhanded in its tightfistedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Which is why we want to see Gordhan following his better nature - that of extreme caution and tightfistedness - in the budget he presents today.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

Which is why we want to see Gordhan following his better nature -- that of extreme caution and tightfistedness - in the budget he presents today.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

(Because of zoning complexities and the city's tightfistedness regarding liquor licenses, it's much easier to buy and convert an existing bar than to open a new one.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Baptists and an atheist group are engaged in the Battle of the Billboards! tightfistedness of many atheists, they have their work cut out for them as far as raising support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

You don't have to be a disciple of Singer's philosophy to admire his commitment to charity, especially when you consider the tightfistedness of some of our leading public figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aish Weekly Articles] Reference

But the greater danger is that millions of Americans might believe that all that is keeping them from the good life is the tightfistedness of people doing better than them and a government unwilling to pry those wealthy fingers open.    From Wordnik.com.  [sassafrassin.com] Reference

"This will be a drag on all discretionary purchases," says Dirk van Dijk, an analyst at Zacks Investment Research who thinks the tightfistedness will cut into the earnings of firms ranging from hotel chains to furniture makers to motorcycle manufacturers.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Leaving aside for the moment questions of whether a decline can succumb, or if digi-beta video is capable of getting drunk ... while I wholeheartedly concur with Mr. White that the trend toward smeary video projection at critics 'screenings is to be deplored, I believe the practice has more to do with venal tightfistedness than aesthetic depravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Company Of Glenn] Reference

‘Work drunk’ sounds like I’m having more fun”), and tightfistedness (he closed CBS’s cafeteria on weekends and eliminated office Christmas parties).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Sumner] Reference

Forego tightfistedness and start to spend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unexpectedly Eighty] Reference

"attention-seeking"; "avoidance of confrontation"; "clothes and appearance" (sometimes self-deprecation has a place); his "discomfort with illness"; "emotional fragility and unavailability"; "frugality and tightfistedness"; his "immaturity as youth"; his "fears of mortality".    From Wordnik.com.  [The price of everything] Reference

Of course it is unfair to speak of Aramco's tightfistedness with its reserves data without talking also of big recent discoveries in Borneo, the Amazon Basin, Siberia, Brazil, Greece, the People's Republic of China, the North Sea (seven major oilfields discovered in 1973, containing the equivalent of half the world's consumption for the year, or ten billion barrels, to say nothing of new pools or extensions to old ones), or Mexico (one-quarter the year's consumption, at least, in new finds).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Energy Problem] Reference