The blacklist does have one unqualified success this season: its extraordinary work in overhauling Keen.
It highlights the biggest problem with The blacklist as the show barrels towards the conclusion of its debut season.
On the drama side, James Spader breaks into the Best Actor category for his bravura scenery chewing on The blacklist.
For an anti-defamation league to put out a blacklist is to imply that those blacklisted are in the business of defamation.
Our highly anticipated new James Spader drama The blacklist deserves to go into the 10 p.m. slot on Monday.
The discussion was as profitless as that arising from the blacklist.
He'll blacklist you in every yacht club from Bar Harbor to Miami.
It does not need to use a "blacklist" because the employers are all combined in one "person."
Commissioner Wright: "Have you any other evidence of the existence of a blacklist?"
"I don't think you have any cause to blacklist Mr. Norcross," I said.
also black-list, black list, "list of persons who have incurred suspicion," 1610s, from black (adj.), here indicative of disgrace, censure, punishment (attested from 1590s, in black book) + list (n.). Specifically of employers' list of workers considered troublesome (usually for union activity) is from 1888. As a verb, from 1718. Related: Blacklisted; blacklisting.
Concerted action by employers to deny employment to someone suspected of unacceptable opinions or behavior. For example, individual workers suspected of favoring labor unions have often been blacklisted by all the employers in a region.
Note: During the McCarthy era (see Joseph P. McCarthy) in the 1950s, the careers of many public figures suspected of communist activities were ruined by blacklisting.
verb
To punish someone by denial of work, boycotting of products, etc •Both terms come fr the 1700s and meant ''to ostracize''; the modern specialized sense appears to have developed in the labor troubles of the 1890s: Some members of the Twilight Zone movie crew say they are being blackballed
noun
A list of banned or undesirable people: the blacklist for the event
verb
To put someone's name on a list of the banned or undesirable: blacklisted during college
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