BLACKBALLING Synonyms

• expel from a community or group

• avoid speaking to or dealing with

• avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

• expel from a community or group

• a vote that blocks a decision

• the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• command against

• a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies

• refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with

• bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

• prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off

• prevent from entering; keep out

• remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action

• prevent from being included or considered or accepted

• prevent from entering; shut out

• lack or fail to include

• prevent from entering; keep out

• put out or expel from a place

• force to leave or move out

• remove from a position or office

• cause to flee

• eliminate (a substance)

• remove from a position or office

• remove and replace

• the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

• not accept something given or offered

• not accept as true

• deem wrong or inappropriate

• reject with contempt

• resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

• refuse entrance or membership

• dismiss from consideration or a contest

• cast off

• refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

• refuse to recognize or pay

• reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust

• expel from a community or group

• ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

• expel, as if by official decree

• drive away

• the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

• a list of people who are out of favor

• put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• expel from a community or group

• avoid speaking to or dealing with

• expel from a community or group

• throw or cast away