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All blackball synonyms

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verb blackball

  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
  • oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
  • veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
  • debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
  • repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • snub — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • ban — To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
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