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black mark
A black cross or other mark made against the name of a person who has incurred censure, penalty, etc. Also fig.
1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 129 Who's pushing on there? I see you, Mrs. Page. Won't there be a black mark against you? 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 60 Note such a fellow..with a black mark, as a disloyal and disaffected subject.
Hence black-mark v.
1873Masson Drumm. of Hawth. xiii. 278 Ostracise and black mark all who do not come into their confederacy. |
