Close-handed
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Alternative form of closehanded. alt-of, alternative
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From close + handed.
Related phrases
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