Softball

Definitions

1. A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
   countable, uncountable
2. The ball used to play the sport.
   countable, uncountable
3. A question designed to be easy to answer.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This will give⟳ you someone with whom you can trade⟳ softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell⟳ you is the key to a good time.”

“a softball interview”

“Each man got his share⟳ of softballs on Friday night. But for 90 minutes in a dressed-up basketball arena at Washington University, the two candidates were also forced to address the kind of questions they get⟳ rarely if ever on the campaign trail: from voters who doubted them and maybe did not even like⟳ them very much.”

“He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host⟳, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite.”

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