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close-fisted
vs
grasping
close-fisted
adj
tight-fisted, stingy
grasping
noun
The act of one who grasps or covets.
adj
Greedy, eager for wealth.
How often have the words
close-fisted
and
grasping
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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