blackballed

Verb

blackball (third-person singular simple present blackballs, present participle blackballing, simple past and past participle blackballed)

1. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
   • If you're not from a moneyed, well-connected family, you can count on getting blackballed from the fraternity.
2. (transitive) To ostracize.
   • Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed.1968 July, Stan Dryer, “The Fully Automated Love Life of Henry Keanridge”, in Playboy Magazine, page 152

   Synonyms:

   blacklist, send to Coventry, brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise, ignore, misheed, misregard

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