straithanded

Alternative form of strait-handed.

Adjective

  1. Alternative form of strait-handed.
    • for of all the outward blessings that God affords us, our time is incomparably the most precious and inestimable; and therefore, though he gives us his other blessings in great variety, and provides for us a plentiful...
    • Knowing how critical and straithanded or miserly the Iban can be with one another, I asked Enchul why he continued to help his brother. - 1988, Vinson H. Sutlive, The Iban of Sarawak: Chronicle of a Vanishing World,...
    • Yonder lies the bloated, sprawling kingdom of Dur, in the avaricious grip of that straithanded niggard Tashian. - 2011, L. Sprague de Camp, The Hostage of Zir, →ISBN:

Forms

more straithanded most straithanded