blackball

Ms McKinney said modelling opportunities began to decline for her and she believed Mr Combs used his influence to "blackball" her in the industry.

From BBC ● May 22, 2024

“Bye, bye,” Ms. Wiles posted on Sunday on social media about her erstwhile boss, who had tried to blackball her from Republican politics.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Daniels told “Raq Rants” in 2018 that he did not blackball Mo’Nique.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2022

Regarding the charge from many of his accusers that he threatened to derail their careers if they spoke out: “I couldn’t blackball anybody, because if I said, ‘Don’t use that actress’ .

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2020

And I knew that by the next day, every railroad’s personnel office would have a blackball on me, so I never tried to get another railroad job.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

While that blackballs the firms, it does not ban all business dealings, the report added.

From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022

I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

But once again, insensible to this detail, the jury seemed scarcely able to find blackballs enough to emphasize their refusal of the "Passage of the Beresina."

From International Short Stories: French by A. Cheneviere

Two blackballs are sufficient to cause the rejection of a candidate.

From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan

Napoleon sees in this remark a germ of aggression on behalf of his House of Commons, more especially when emphasised by 125 blackballs against a Government Bill.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

That will make it possible to identify potential vetoes but not which country blackballed any given candidate.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

In an unpublished article titled “Das Kannibal,” Mitchell wrote angrily about being blackballed for speaking out against the war.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025

It has also been reported that the energy security department had already blackballed Greenpeace months ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

A few weeks ago, Murphy made headlines for a "rumor" that spread in which "AHS" crew members were told that they'd be "blackballed" if they didn't cross picket lines.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2023

If he’s not careful, he’ll be blackballed by his state medical association and kept out of the hospitals.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

And the reason for that compulsive work ethic was her unofficial blackballing by “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson, for the crime of accepting Fox's offer to host her own talk show.

From Salon ● May 14, 2025

Mr. Krikorian says he’s been facing that sort of ideological blackballing for years.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2022

“This trend of big banks blackballing Alaska investment is dangerous to Alaska’s economic future,” Sullivan said in an interview Friday.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

He won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2019 after he accused the league of blackballing him because of his protests.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2020

Sala, G. A.,   Reminiscences of;   his election to Reform Club;   his encyclopaedic knowledge;   on blackballing at clubs.

From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid