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blackballed
adjective as in undesired
adjective as in uninvited
adjective as in unwelcome
Strongest matches
adjective as in unwished-for
noun as in inhospitableness
Strong matches
noun as in inhospitality
Strong matches
noun as in ungraciousness
Strong matches
noun as in unreceptiveness
Weak matches
- disagreeable
- displeasing
- distasteful
- exceptionable
- excess baggage
- excluded
- ill-favored
- inadmissible
- inhospitableness
- inhospitality
- left out in cold
- lousy
- not in the picture
- objectionable
- obnoxious
- rejected
- repellent
- shut out
- thankless
- unacceptable
- unasked
- undesirable
- ungraciousness
- uninvited
- unpleasant
- unpopular
- unsought
- unwanted
- unwelcomeness
- unwished-for
noun as in unwelcomeness
Weak matches
- disagreeable
- displeasing
- distasteful
- exceptionable
- excess baggage
- excluded
- ill-favored
- inadmissible
- inhospitableness
- inhospitality
- left out in cold
- lousy
- not in the picture
- objectionable
- obnoxious
- rejected
- repellent
- shut out
- thankless
- unacceptable
- unasked
- undesirable
- ungraciousness
- uninvited
- unpleasant
- unpopular
- unreceptiveness
- unsought
- unwanted
- unwished-for
Example Sentences
She also said he had subsequently "blackballed" her in the modelling world.
Siwa's experience with Nickelodeon led the star to big heights, even though she alleged that they blackballed her.
It happened after a Muhammad Ali fight back in 1970 when he couldn’t get sanctioned to fight anywhere; he’d been blackballed because of his stance against the Vietnam War.
Most importantly, Martell is a Black country musician who is receiving her flowers decades after she was entirely blackballed by Nashville's overwhelmingly white and racist country music gatekeepers.
Afterward he was blackballed in the industry, and invested most of his settlement in a producing a play he wrote that flopped.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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