(n.) A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
(n.) A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were all people the teachers wanted to blackball.
(2) That informality and sense of belonging to a club, in which the main sanction was the threat of being blackballed by your fellow members, largely disappeared with the restructuring (or rather destructuring) of the City that took place in 1986 – the so-called "big bang", from which both London's dramatic rise as a global financial hub and the collapse of 2007-8 directly stem.
(3) A sign by the doorbell warns that only members are admitted and a committee vets new applicants, blackballing some.
(4) After Trump accused Kelly of having “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” during her questioning of him, a comment widely construed as referring to menstruation, he was blackballed from a conservative event and engaged in a brief boycott of Fox.
(5) Was it ever going 2 b anyone else after Summers blackballed?
(6) Many were subsequently refused redundancy compensation and blackballed, thus condemning their families to decades of impoverishment .
(7) This is a highly innovative approach, with well-designed legislation but the real challenge will be enforcement and implementation by the EU bodies, and the countries themselves.” Several species of crayfish will also be blackballed by the EU, although the American lobster was the subject of intense lobbying by Canada and is omitted from the list.
(8) But the immediate causa causans was the blackballing of a candidate whose merits were his own, but whose ancestory was condemned.
(9) But Ahmed thought it was a farce, because the teachers would blackball any candidate they considered unsuitable.
(10) The head of the CRU, Professor Phil Jones, as a top expert in his field, was regularly asked to review papers and he sometimes wrote critical reviews that may have had the effect of blackballing papers criticising his work.
(11) His Marxism was destined to shift from Karl to Groucho, as he first abandoned ideological affiliations and then, when blackballed from the Garrick Club, announced that he wouldn't join any club that would have him as a member.
(12) At the start of her career, she alleges, a mogul behaved “creepily” towards her, then tried to have her blackballed after she rejected him.
(13) Hodges was just 32 at the time, and believes he was blackballed for hanging out with Louis Farrakhan while pressuring other black NBA players, including his teammate Michael Jordan , to work harder on African American social issues.
(14) "The NEC reserves the right to blackball any MEP from standing again if their record was poor."
(15) Free from Fifa red tape, the rebel DiMayor clubs went feral, taking their blackballing as cue to cherry-pick whoever they fancied: the El Dorado era was born.
(16) It’s one thing for the DNC to blackball a former Maryland governor or even self-proclaimed democratic socialist senator from Vermont – it’s altogether another thing to do so to the second most powerful person in the United States government.
(17) For some months the NSN was a base for another former Gove adviser, Dominic Cummings, blackballed last year by Andy Coulson for a role at Mr Gove's right hand on the grounds that he was "too leaky".
Blacklist
Definition:
(v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
(2) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(3) The Scottish Affairs select committee that is investigating the blacklisting has uncovered documents showing that the police unit monitoring political activists met the blacklisting agency in 2008 to discuss sharing information.
(4) The move to deploy the Thaad system, which drew a swift and sharp protest from China, came a day after the US Treasury Department blacklisted leader North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for human rights abuses.
(5) Acheson said the government should ban companies that use the blacklists from taking public sector contracts.
(6) Steel found herself on the blacklist and believes information on it originated from the police.
(7) In 2015, Seagal was included in a proposed blacklist of foreign cultural figures who “speak out in support of violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” along with French actor Gérard Depardieu and many Russian artists.
(8) Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has described the blacklisting of workers as a "national scandal".
(9) The issue of blacklisting first hit the headlines in 2009, when it emerged that many of the country's construction firms were using a central list with more than 3,000 names on it.
(10) Soon afterwards, he announced that one of Moscow's top foreign policy priorities was to prevent government and other officials from being placed on visa blacklists abroad.
(11) By this time, Bellotto’s paintings were especially prized because so many of the works documenting Poland’s history had been blacklisted by the Nazis.
(12) But on Sunday night pressure was mounting on the government to launch a full investigation into allegations of blacklisting.
(13) Other Hunt plans – banning gagging orders and the fiddling of mortality data, and blacklisting failed NHS managers like the former Mid Staffs chief executive Martin Yeates – will help plug obvious gaps in NHS practice, as judged against the strict new requirement for accountability.
(14) The information commissioner's office said last year that some of the content on the blacklist could only have come from the police or security services .
(15) Mohseni-Eje’i did not specifically mention whether the new round of censorship also applied to the opposition leaders but it is widely assumed that they are blacklisted too.
(16) Yet Smith’s blacklist file describes him as a “leading light” in a group known as the Away Team, which sought to protect anti-fascist activists from attacks.
(17) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(18) Indeed the following day, Dave Smith, the 46-year-old engineer whose tribunal heard the admission, went on to lose his claim for compensation from one of the firms involved in the blacklisting.
(19) The eight firms announced their apology for funding the blacklist and "the impact that its database may have had on any individual construction worker".
(20) So there was outrage on Monday when the UN said it had removed the coalition from its annual child rights blacklist pending a joint review by the world body and the coalition of those deaths and injuries.