Synonyms for blackball

Grammar : Verb

Spell : blak-bawl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈblækˌbɔl

Définition of blackball

Origin : also black-ball, "to exclude from a club by adverse votes," 1770, from black (adj.) + ball (n.1). Black balls of wood or ivory dropped into an urn during secret ballots.

verb expel from group

Example sentences :

Hand them around; blackball them; sound the alarm of mad dog.
Extract from : « Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading » by Various

How had he, a useless old fogy, dared to blackball a man like Iver?
Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope

Beaten by a blackball called Carlton—I'd hate to see him now.
Extract from : « Letters of a Dakota Divorcee » by Jane Burr

Snooks does not any more think it gentlemanlike to blackball attorneys.
Extract from : « The Book of Snobs » by William Makepeace Thackeray

They let a victim go there until they get all and then they blackball him.
Extract from : « The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World » by Robert O. Harland

If a ballot should be demanded the members will all vote, and one blackball will exclude.
Extract from : « The Sportswoman's Library, Vol. 1 of 2 » by Various

She sees herself on the eve of becoming the acquaintance of Captain Blackball.
Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray

The committee will blackball the best fellow that ever lived if I don't go and stop them.
Extract from : « Little Novels » by Wilkie Collins

So they go back to their clubs and their cards, and their billiards, and abuse their cooks and blackball their friends.
Extract from : « The Last Chronicle of Barset » by Anthony Trollope

Tack Turner, one of the crowd, was the first to blackball, but after him the voting again was favorable.
Extract from : « Deering of Deal » by Latta Griswold

Antonyms for blackball

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