blackballed 的 2 个定义
- to vote against.
- to exclude socially; ostracize: The whole town blackballed them.
- to reject by placing a blackball in the ballot box.
- a negative vote, especially in deciding on an applicant or candidate.
- a black ball placed in a ballot box signifying a negative vote.
blackballed 近义词
expel from group
更多blackballed例句
- Haynes did say he thought all the players were “kind of marked,” but none of them were blackballed.
- Doubtless, some enemy he had made along the way blackballed him.
- Gallery: Blackballed Politicians, Celebrities, and Journalists Fox will undoubtedly go haywire over the dismissal.
- He was actually blackballed by the Bush White House in 2006 for writing a caustic Washington Post op-ed.
- The Grill enjoys the distinction of having blackballed, without political prejudice, a Prime Minister of each party.
- "Just like Beecham being blackballed at the club," said the doctor, with a sarcastic bitterness all his own.
- I have voted whenever I knew anything about the person in question, and I have never blackballed but once.
- The three who had been blackballed sat sulking on the ground with their backs toward him.
- It was in vain to muse upon any plan for having Ball blackballed, or for rebelling against Bell.