(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".
Ostracize
Definition:
(v. t.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
(v. t.) To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(2) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(3) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
(4) An attempt is made to reveal the escalation of drug abuse in our community as a public health hazard, to initiate the concept of a team approach as the only way to provide early effective treatment, and also to develop preventive measures as the necessary alternative to ostracism and punishment.
(5) While service dogs are known to perform important tasks for people using wheelchairs, such as retrieving dropped items or pulling a wheelchair, they may also serve as an antidote for social ostracism.
(6) The social ostracism would be a very big deterrent," she said.
(7) They have suffered neglect and even ostracism for too long.
(8) Failure to conform to any or all of these constraints may result in professional ostracism or even loss of liberty.
(9) Abortion is many times requested not for ethical, economical or medical reasons, but to obey the rules imposed by a society that still ostracizes certain kinds of behavior.
(10) The consequences for qualified health professionals are well known: there are professional and personal risks — demotion, reprimand, referral to psychiatrists, pressure to resign, careers halted, victimisation, ostracism, exclusion and bullying, disillusionment, isolation and humiliation.
(11) The most frequent responses to AIDS have been scapegoating, resulting in ostracism, stigma, and blame; resignation; use of alternative therapies; political mobilization; and research.
(12) There should be clear consequences including professional ostracism for failing to meet these standards."
(13) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
(14) Right to work” undermines that union power because it allows workers to pay no dues at all, even in unionized workplaces, and face no penalties except being ostracized.
(15) Even those who condemn his remarks strike a word of caution over his ostracism.
(16) And this week he threw his support behind Riyadh’s diplomatic and commercial ostracism of Qatar , which almost alone among Gulf Arab states has tried to keep on good terms with Iran.
(17) Most of it is limited to publicly naming those workers, to ostracize them, and making snide comments.
(18) My friends would risk neighbourhood ostracism to protest at the unconstitutionality of Ten Commandments posters on classroom walls.
(19) Rejection and ostracism is common; women just have to pick up the pieces and rebuild their and their children's lives and often also rebuild their own communities.
(20) Leprosy deformities have been the cause of dehabilitation, destitution and social ostracism.