Crossword clues for blackballed
blackballed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackball \Black"ball`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackballed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackballing.]
-
To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
He was blackballed at two clubs in succession.
--Thackeray. To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: blackball)
Usage examples of "blackballed".
Members were blackballed without refund of fees if they were connected to the slightest public mention, and the enormous fees they paid, as well as our investigative process, thoroughly eliminated reporter spies.
If you do not leave and come back with us now on the plane of your free will—and I assure you no one is going to lay a hand on you to try to force you to do that—you will be blackballed utterly and entirely and forever from The Club.
You will be blackballed from the houses of the trainers who sell to us as well.
His only recourse was to leave his ship, to exchange it for virtual oblivion, for, apart from the fact that he was automatically blackballed, unemployment was high in the Merchant Navy and the few vacancies available were for willing serfs only.
A week later the golf club blackballed his application for membership.
Each was given its own sharply delineated personality traits: the Aristocratic Philosopher: the Promiscuous Child-Woman: the First Rich Ex--Wife (a Bitch): the Aging Groupie: the Pope’s Driver: the Underwater Plumber: the Traumatized Quarterback: the Blackballed Golfer: the Three Society Girls: the Playboys: the Golden Child and His Ideal Mother: the Deceitful Publisher: the Angry Professor: the Goddess of Victory (an exceptionally beautiful cyborg modeled after Kronos’s abandoned lover.
She had the odd feeling that she'd been transported back in time and that it was two weeks ago, when Faye had blackballed her.
Cassie thought she could stand being blackballed, being a pariah at school again.