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blacklist

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1. blacklist - Noun

2. blacklist - Verb

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To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.

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Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. Edward Dmytryk

Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song. Jack White

I've never been much smitten by Catholicism. I've never been committed to any religious dogma of any sort. ... For years the Catholics had me on their blacklist. Then along comes some sharp-witted pater and says 'Let's take this lad into the business, instead. Ingmar Bergman

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women. Anne M. Mulcahy

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings. Diego Klattenhoff

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.' Ed Asner

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