Criticize harshly or violently.
Expose to ridicule or public scorn.
1 The pillory continued in use until the accession of Victoria in 1837.
2 She is sentenced; to-morrow she is to go about in the pillory .
3 The man who wrote it ought to be put in the pillory .
4 Must that poor wretch in the pillory stand out in the rain?
5 Compared with that, even standing in the pillory was not specially grievous.
6 Wretched playactor, we will put him in the pillory for his success.
7 Instead of the whipping post, he instituted the pillory and barrel shirt.
8 The pillory stood not far away, and the May-pole is also mentioned.
9 The Loyalists, for years, put Boston as in a pillory for punishment.
10 As for those who do hurt flies, we pillory them in history.
11 Is a man ever put in the pillory for a capital crime?
12 Still, we had to endure our pillory for a long while yet.
13 Colonel von Szekuly to three days of pillory , and four years' detention.
14 Green closed the pillory and locked it, trapping Matthew's head and arms.
15 For the liberated prisoner: twenty years hard labor, and the pillory .
16 Furthermore, this proposal opens the door for our main competitors to pillory us.
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