blackballed
Meaning of blackballed
verb, past tense
- reject (a candidate applying to become a member of a private club), typically by means of a secret ballot.
her husband was blackballed when he tried to join the Country Club
late 18th century: from the practice of registering an adverse vote by placing a black ball in a ballot box.
Information about blackballed
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Hyphenation of blackballed
black-balled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
- blackballed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
blackballed synonyms
Meaning fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff:
Meaning exclude or prohibit (someone) officially from doing something:
Meaning fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars:
Meaning officially or legally prohibit (something):
Meaning put on a blacklist:
Meaning deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege:
Meaning officially make (someone) leave a school or other organization:
Meaning drive out or expel (someone) from a position or place:
Meaning a person handling payments and receipts in a shop, bank, or business:
Meaning exclude from a society or group:
Meaning refuse to accept; reject:
Meaning withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest:
Meaning rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully:
Meaning persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution:
Meaning reject with disdain or contempt:
Meaning exclude (someone) from fellowship:
blackballed antonyms
Meaning confess to be true or to be the case:
Words that rhyme with blackballed
appalled, autodialled, backpedalled, balled, beballed, becalled, begalled, bethralled, caballed, called, cannonballed, carnalled, catcalled, corivalled, coronalled, corralled, corrivalled, coveralled, credentialled, crystalled, curveballed, cymballed, devalled, dialled, disenthralled, disinthralled, drywalled, dualled, emballed, enthralled, envassalled, enwalled, equalled, eyeballed, firewalled, forestalled, galled, generalled, gimballed, gimmalled, halalled, hallalled, highballed, initialled, installed, intervalled, inthralled, inwalled, jackalled, journalled
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