Meaning of softship | Babel Free

Definitions

A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.

countable, humorous, often, rare, uncountable

Examples

“In 1856 I courted hardship, went out of my way in search of it, selected the North because hardship was most attainable there ; now my object is exactly reversed, it is not hardship, but (I should like to say "softship," but dare not) the utmost […]”

“Until you have mended a tire on a muddy road at dusk and turned a crank for five reels of the most deadly movies, you have an entirely misleading notion as to the softships of relief work. I can think of no work of theirs more satisfying to the worker herself […]”

“Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.”

“[…] hardships he so gracefully endured amid numbered leave-takings from the softship of his father's customized cabin were notable and should be recorded for future invalids. real and imaginary. Exactly who was part of this airborne sodality?”

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