going one on one with (verb) take on: challenge, oppose
Sinonime: blackballed, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, excess baggage, excluded, ill-favored, inadmissible, left out in cold, lousy, not in the picture, objectionable, obnoxious, rejected, repellent, shut out, thankless, unacceptable, unasked, undesirable, uninvited, unpleasant, unpopular, unsought, unwanted, unwished-for