1. hardball - Noun
2. hardball - Adjective
3. hardball - Verb
baseball as distinguished from softball
a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics
Source: WordNetArtists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. Hans Haacke
When I play ball, I play hardball. Kirstie Alley
Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour. Mordecai Brown
they play hardball in the Senate Source: Internet
Agnos arrived at that figure by looking at the rates extracted from developments and insisting that City Hall should play hardball with future building opportunities. Source: Internet