Anagrams of HARDBALL

• a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics

• baseball as distinguished from softball

• A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; the Himalayan blue sheep, Pseudois nayaur.

• pompous or pretentious talk or writing

• a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

• a narrative poem of popular origin

• relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters)

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.

• tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics

• small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant

• (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah

• proper or legitimate according to Muslim law

• conforming to Muslim dietary laws

• tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics