All blackball synonyms
black·ball
B b 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.