Crossword-Solution: BLACKBALLING 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 23

They held a public meeting, which ended,--or rather began, continued, and ended,--in a riot; and ever since then the leading agitators have been challenging each other, refusing each other's challenges, libelling each other, swearing the peace against each other, and blackballing each other.

They wouldn't have dreamed of blackballing any one proposed by a popular man like you, and Mr Breitstein asked you personally to use your influence--you told me so.' 'But, my dear girl--I mean my darling--Breitstein! He's the limit! He's the worst bounder in London.' 'He's also one of the richest men in London.

One marked sign was the formation of the Literary Club (The Club, as it still claims to be called), which brought together Fox, Burke, Gibbon, Johnson, Goldsmith, Garrick, Reynolds, and Beauclerc, besides blackballing a bishop (the Bishop of Chester), and a lord-chancellor (Camden).[1] Yet it is curious to observe within how narrow a circle of good houses the Doctor's engagements were restricted.

Nobody will dream of blackballing her, you'll see." Molly compressed her lips into a firm red line and said nothing, but she was almost led to wish that school societies did not exist at all.

Clubs have a way of blackballing grubs--especially grubs that are out of the common grubby; nor did he sit down to dinner with them at any dinner-table, or come across them at any house he was by way of frequenting; but he imagined they were quite important persons because they did not sign their articles! and he quite mistook their place in the economy of creation.