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blackball, n. 1. rejection, disapproval, denial, nay, no vote, turn down, thumbs down; exclusion, ostracism, barring, banning; ouster, ejection, expulsion.
-v. 2. reject, disapprove, vote against, say [s.o.] nay; exclude, ban, spurn, shut out, bar; turn one's back on, set one's face against; repudiate, cast aside, disown, discard; ostracize, shun, leave out in the cold, keep at arm's length, snub, Inf cut, Inf. cold-shoulder, give [s.o.] the cold shoulder, refuse to associate with, send to Coventry, Inf high-hat; oust, eject, throw out, expel, drum out, cashier, Sl. dump.

blacken, v. 1. charcoal, blackwash, ink, cork; smudge, soot, smoke, begrime, Brit. Dial, colly; darken, obscure, obfuscate, dim; eclipse, black out; shade, shadow.
2. slander, libel, calumniate, impute, asperse, traduce, falsify; injure, abuse, assail, stab, backbite, Sl. badmouth; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch, soil, taint, tarnish, stain, spot, drag through the mud or mire, heap dirt upon.
3. defame, denigrate, vilify, run down, berate, revile, malign, impugn, gibbet, give a bad name, Sl. do a hatchet job on.

blackguard, n. 1. scoundrel, wretch, cur, cad, dastard, knave, rascal, wastrel, ne'er-do-well, rogue, devil, villain; All Inf. bum, jerk, rat, creep, stinker, louse, Derog. bastard, Derog. SOB; All Brit. Sl. rotter, bounder, blighter.
-v. 2. vilify, berate, revile, defame, denigrate, vituperate, run down, malign, gibbet, impugn, speak ill of, hold up to scorn, give a bad name, scandalize, Sl. do a hatchet job on.

blacklist, n. 1. denouncement, condemnation, proscription.
2. list of suspects or offenders or outcasts, enemies list; Rom. Cath. Ch. Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Index.
3. label, mark, put on one's list; denounce, condemn, proscribe; boycott, shun, spurn, turn one's back on, set one's face against; prohibit, forbid, taboo.

-v. 4. exclude, shut out, lock out, bar from; repudiate, disown, cast aside, reject, discard, blackball; isolate, leave out in the cold, cut, refuse to associate with, send to Coventry.
5. banish, exile, relegate, expatriate, outlaw, deport, transport; excommunicate, disfellow, disenfranchise; oust, eject, throw out, expel; discharge, drum out, cashier, Sl. bounce, Sl. dump.

blackmail, n. 1. ransom, tribute, exacted or enforced payment; bribe, hush money, Inf protection, Inf. payola, graft.
2. extortion, Sl. shake-down, exaction, Inf. the squeeze; milking, Inf bleeding, blood-sucking; wresting, wrenching, wringing, extraction, elicitation; badger game, skin game, Sl. murphy.
-v. 3. extort, Inf. bleed, milk, squeeze, get out of, obtain by force; put the arm on [s.o.], Sl. lean on or against, put the screws to [s.o.]; mulct, Sl. shake down, Inf. put the bite or squeeze or shake on; wrest, wrench, tear from, extract.
4. compel, make, coerce, force, threaten; require, demand, insist on or upon, command, enjoin; call for, necessitate, tax, Obs. task, requisition.

black sheep, n. outcast, pariah, reprobate, apostate, recreant, renegade, Archaic, renegado, strayer, wanderer; idler, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, Chiefly Brit, wastrel, U.S. Inf. bum, Sl. loser.

bladder, n. vescia, sac, bag, receptacle, pocket, pouch, bursa, capsule, theca; saccule, saccula, utricle, vesicle, cyst, blister, bleb.