IRON-FISTED

Definition: IRON-FISTED

IRON-FISTED

Adjective

1. Closefisted; stingy; mean.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Books

• The Dark Side of Shakespeare: An Iron-Fisted Romantic in England's Most Perilous Times:Volume I of III (reference)

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Iron-fisted breach. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Portuguese

pão-duro (mingy, miser, money grubber), avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunks, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Romanian

zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tà n bạo; độc đoán hà tiện, nhẫn tâm (cold-hearted, coldly, dispiteous, grim, hard-hearted, iron-hearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonily, unfeeling), keo kiệt (miserly, near, scrimpy, skimpingly, stingy). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ironfisted.

-1 letter: disorient, introfied, introfies, notifiers, retinoids.

-2 letters: derision, diorites, disinter, editions, inditers, ironside, nitrides, notified, notifier, notifies, resinoid, retinoid, sedition.

-3 letters: defrost, dineros, dinitro, diorite, dirties, ditsier, edition, editors, fideist, finders, finites, foisted, fondest, forints, forties, friends, fronted, frontes, frosted, inditer, indites, indorse, inosite, insider, iodines, ionised, ironies, ironist, niftier, nifties, nitride, nitrids, noisier.

+2 letters: profundities.

+3 letters: nonesterified, redefinitions.

+4 letters: defibrinations, interdiffusion, overidentifies, transmogrified.

+5 letters: defibrillations, desertification, desulfurization, disconformities, diversification, federalizations, fibrinopeptides, foreordinations, interdiffusions, recodifications, underinflations.