Words and phrases that have a meaning related to hardball: (125 results)
Antonyms:
softball, softball game
Often used in the same context:
footsie, brinkmanship, gamesmanship, posturing, gotcha, bully, trump card, spoilsport, bluff, intransigence, balking, dicker, stonewalling, cajoling, dirty tricks, gambit, pawns, upmanship, obstructionist, backroom, clout, coddling, bluster, shrewdness, tin ear, meddling, negotiating, curry favor, turnabout, finessing, doublespeak, patsy, strongarm, combativeness, bargaining chip, negotiation, fiddle, quid pro quo, catchup, realpolitik, lapdog, pragmatism, haggling, saber rattling, stickball, oneupmanship, hooky, relenting, browbeating, pingpong, compromise, blackmail, rebuff, catbird seat, grandstander, chumminess, greenmail, bullyboy, hypocrisy, kowtow, stubbornness, wheeler dealer, sandbox, featherbedding, tiddlywinks, hot potato, trump, cutthroat, chutzpah, cudgel, cagy, concessions, kingmaker, muckrake, sandlot, churlishness, subterfuge, baseball, coy, gin rummy, cahoots, capitulates, craven, blandishments, maneuvering, gazump, wussy, machinations, budge, blowhard, pugnaciousness, shill, micromanaging, gumshoes, bolshie, toughness, squabble, caving, naivete, consigliere, bigshot, wheedling, business, wheeling, chicanery, foothold, giants, leverage, sparring, advertising, backing, bashing, bind, bungling, busi, chess, contention, conundrum, courting
More general:
Also try:attitude, ball game, baseball game, mental attitude
— Adjectives for hardball: political, real, little, economic, legal, serious, competitive, diplomatic, good, partisan, japanese, more...
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