blackball

Even a popular New York City venue allegedly uses it to blackball people its millionaire owner considers adversaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

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

NBA superstars like LeBron James and Steph Curry are impervious to this kind of treatment, in part because the NBA didn’t campaign to blackball them.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2019

I eventually reached her husband through his importers’ association, which would later blackball him for undercutting his fellow members.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

And the longer they have gone before the more likely he is to receive no blackballs.

From The Country House by John Galsworthy

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

In an unpublished article titled “Das Kannibal,” Mitchell wrote angrily about being blackballed for speaking out against the war.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025

She also said he had subsequently "blackballed" her in the modelling world.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024

Afterward he was blackballed in the industry, and invested most of his settlement in a producing a play he wrote that flopped.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

Mo’Nique alleged that Winfrey blackballed her after she declined to participate in Oscars campaigning for “Precious.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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

The staffers spoke on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about retaliation or blackballing in the small world of American museums.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

“They face industry blackballing and fewer professional opportunities when they speak out,” Williams said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

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