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Blackball vs Garish - What's the difference?

blackball | garish |

As a noun blackball

is a rejection, a vote against admitting someone.

As a verb blackball

is to vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

As an adjective garish is

overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

blackball

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
  • A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
  • the act of so rejecting someone.
  • A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
  • A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
  • *1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  • *:Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.
  • To ostracize.

    • garish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
  • :
  • *
  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • *2003 August 10, Ken Keeler, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", Futurama , season 5, episode 16, Fox Broadcasting Company
  • *:Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish .

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