Blackball
Blackball noun - The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto.
Repulse
Repulse noun - Treatment that is deliberately unfriendly.
Usage example: the waiter's incredibly rude repulse of our polite request for a better table—one that wasn't right next to the kitchen—prompted us to walk out
Blackball and repulse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blackball" instead a noun "Repulse".
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Repulse and Blackball. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blackball/repulse
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Repulse or Blackball. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/blackball/repulse.
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