closehanded adjective 3adverb 1forms 2 adjective3 •Covetous; penurious; stingyOnce he got to Main Street, the street lamps puddled pale gold circles directly beneath their poles, closehanded as a string of misers, but Mason avoided even the edges of their light. — 2015 •Secretive.Ye need not be so closehanded of anything I send you: ye may communicate them to whom ye will, for I am little concerned if they be published under others' name or not. — 2014 •(no longer used) Involving close proximity....a closehanded battle, or tumult, in which the ditferent parties are confusedly mired together, and fight, as we say, pellmell. — 1845 adverb1 •Closely, directly.As a reporter, I became aware of the problems whistleblowers face closehanded back when I was covering government and local government in Des Moines, Iowa. — 1976 formsmore closehanded · most closehanded
