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pillory
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pil‧lo‧ry1 /ˈpɪləri/ verb (pilloried, pillorying, pillories) [transitive]
if someone is pilloried, they are publicly criticized by a lot of people, especially in newspapers etc
The education secretary was pilloried by the press for his latest proposals.
Grammar
Pillory is usually passive.
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Examples from the Corpus
pillory
• Middleton suffered the ultimate humiliation of being pilloried by his colleagues in front of the television cameras.
• Carter was pilloried for his military policies.
• Harper was pilloried in the press after his team's sixth consecutive defeat.
• We do not want to pillory people without cause.
• They were clearly on the lookout for a second opening to pillory their headmistress.