“We imagine that the Russians and the Chinese are going to play slowball here,” said a senior official involved in the sanctions talks.
Source: wiktionary
Slowball
Synonyms for "slowball" (2 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
But he says the company is dragging its feet and threatened to use his subpoena power to get them moving. “They’re trying to play slowball,” he said of Google.
Source: wiktionary
Dave Kearney then says he's had enough of the slow-ball tactics and bursts through a couple of tackles.
Source: wiktionary
Remember: In work problems, use your common sense to narrow down answer choices! Now we're going to throw a "slowball" at you.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.