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blacklisted

Speech parts

1. blacklisted - Adjective

2. blacklisted - Verb

Meaning

blacklisted (not comparable)

Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.

blacklisted

simple past and past participle of blacklist
He was blacklisted for refusing to say he wasn't a communist.

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Examples

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever. Richard Widmark

When the mayor of Nagoya denies the Nanjing Massacre, he gets blacklisted by the city of Nanjing. When the government of Sichuan denies "tofu dregs” construction [which caused the collapse of several schools], they get blacklisted by me. Ai Weiwei

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland. Ma Jian

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything. Lee Grant

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything. Karen Morley

After the war, Riefenstahl was imprisoned by the Allies for four years for allegedly being a Nazi sympathizer and was permanently blacklisted by the film industry. Source: Internet

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