close-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "they were outcasts, paupers, unfriended beings, to whom the most scanty pittance was a matter of favour, and who were treated merely as children of peasants, yet poorer than the poorest, who, dying, had left them, a thankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land."
- "Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near—close-handed;"
- "Close-handed with his own information, he suspected others of holding out, too."
- "In the last place. I am to come to close-handed fighting."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more close-handed (comparative)
most close-handed (superlative)