softship

plural softships

1. countablehumorousoftenrareuncountableA situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.

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

   1943, Raymond Tift Fuller, Now that We Have to Walk: Exploring the Out-of-doors - Page 29

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   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 […]

   1877, William Mattieu Williams, Through Norway with ladies - Page 2

   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 […]

   1920, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 212 - Page 774

   […] 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?

   2012, Bruce Wagner, I'll Let You Go: A Novel - Page 239