blackballed

past tense of blackball
as in dismissed
to reject by or as if by a vote he was disappointed to learn that he had been blackballed by the fraternity

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“Blackballed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackballed. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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