What's the difference between lambaste and pillory?

Lambaste


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat severely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
  • (2) Prominent pro-Europeans are planning to lambast Cameron for placing a question mark over Britain's EU membership.
  • (3) And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment , as early-stage investors have lambasted its “destructive culture” .
  • (4) The West Ham striker Andy Carroll has lambasted the referee Jon Moss for an unacceptable performance, even accusing the official of trying to even things up by awarding Leicester a stoppage-time penalty.
  • (5) Kenneth Feinberg, the US treasury department official who is scrutinising pay packages at bailed-out banks, said that Lewis – besieged by regulatory investigations and lambasted by shareholders – should get no salary or bonus for the year.
  • (6) As members of Congress lined up to lambast her leadership at a hearing on Capitol Hill, Pierson admitted the gravity of the failure and admitted repeated failings in the performance of the agency in recent years.
  • (7) Following the report on high housing costs, he was widely lambasted for responding on Twitter with remarks about Iran.
  • (8) Chelsea v Bournemouth: Premier League – as it happened Read more Mourinho’s post-match gloom reflected as much, his criticisms of the officials all rather half-hearted given the fact that, when he has lambasted perceived mistakes this term, he has been slapped down with heavy fines, a stadium ban and a threat of another to come.
  • (9) Many local anti-Ukip protests are galvanised by a tiny, loud woman who goes by the soubriquet Bunny La Roche and who last December lambasted Farage from the audience on Question Time , her blue hair and cries of “racist scumbag” making a lasting impression.
  • (10) He lambasts them for undermining local democracy by flexing their legal and financial muscle against much weaker local authorities, and employing former government advisers to forge close relationships with Whitehall.
  • (11) Former Netanyahu aide lambasts US ambassador in heated spat Read more “These provocative acts are bound to increase the growth of settler populations, further heighten tensions and undermine any prospects for a political road ahead,” Ban told a United Nations security council meeting on the Middle East.
  • (12) But amid mounting opposition to the measures, the Communist party lambasted the speech as "scaremongering".
  • (13) It has been a year and no justice has been made.” Speaker after speaker lambasted the response to Brown’s death by authorities.
  • (14) When the CPS requested his extradition in 2007, Putin responded by lambasting Britain's colonial "no brains" mentality.
  • (15) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
  • (16) Officials, not wanting to be lambasted for taking too prominent a role in the game, seem more keen than ever to, in the common parlance, “let them play”.
  • (17) The former tabloid reporter, who also worked for the Sunday Express and trained at Thomson Regional Newspapers , lambasted celebrities who complain about the press, including Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and Sienna Miller, all of whom have given evidence to the inquiry.
  • (18) Behind the success is a lot of drive and a lot of hard work.” Last year she was hosting the Walkleys when she used the platform to lambast managing director Mark Scott’s approach to ABC redundancies and attitude towards traditional TV and radio journalism.
  • (19) Raab said: "In his speech the MI5 director general lambasted the Guardian for handing terrorists a gift - a very potent word he used.
  • (20) It’s a really horrible feeling that this is now playing smack-bang into the far right’s hands.” Cologne attacks: mayor lambasted for telling women to keep men at arm's length Read more The anxiety has extended to the media, including the evening news programme that tweeted the question to its viewers: “How should we cover the events in Cologne?” and baulked at even touching the item itself until five days after the event.

Pillory


Definition:

  • (n.) A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
  • (v. t.) To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
  • (2) Tom Zarges, the head of Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), said he was a "long way from satisfied" by the track record of the business after it was pilloried by members of the Commons public accounts committee.
  • (3) The politician's arguments around reducing the demand for sex have been pilloried by campaigners.
  • (4) The idea that they should be pilloried on the basis of a badly-worded press release just shows that some people readily get things completely out of proportion.” Stopped on the street by border force?
  • (5) Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, was at pains to privately apologise to several world leaders who were pilloried in the disclosures.
  • (6) Tony Hayward , the former BP boss pilloried by US politicians over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year, launched his comeback with a £1bn stock market float that will catapult him back into the oil business.
  • (7) BP in particular was pilloried for promising to go “beyond petroleum” – then running down its alternative energy division.
  • (8) Last year, as the bank spiralled towards collapse and its chairman was pilloried, some Conservatives tried to suggest it was a crisis for Labour too.
  • (9) Griffin was repeatedly pilloried last night when he was dubbed the "Dr Strangelove" of British politics after attempting to claim the mantle of Winston Churchill and struggling to explain his denial of the Holocaust.
  • (10) On the other hand, young people are pilloried for worrying out loud that their lengthy, expensive university education may only lead to an unpaid internship.
  • (11) But the unavoidable irony is that the more he pillories fame, the more famous he becomes, and the more famous he becomes, the more that fame bites back.
  • (12) Dr Edward Horgan Limerick Ireland It seems that Tony Blair will be pilloried to the end of his days for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
  • (13) Pilloried even in their own time, their bloodied names have been brought out like Jacob Marley’s ghost every time America has taken a protectionist turn on trade policy.
  • (14) The 141-year-old New York-based bank has been pilloried as the exemplar of banking pay excess.
  • (15) Gordon Brown is pilloried for having said no more boom and bust , but the idea underpinning that was far more ridiculous, and was all Tony Blair's: no more left and right.
  • (16) At the moment, such enhancements are considered unfair and athletes who seek to evade anti-doping regulations are pilloried as cheats.
  • (17) The arrival on Twitter of one of society's most divisive figures was welcomed by some, but pilloried by many others.
  • (18) Heydon saw in the 2010 case of South Australia v Totani, also about control orders, another opportunity to pillory Soviet communism, Bills of Rights and Adelaide, in one splendid, if bewildering, paragraph : Lord Scott’s proposition, notable for its cautious unwillingness to prejudge the French and Soviet dictators, was much more specific than Lord Hope’s.
  • (19) The 19-year-old forward has found himself pilloried in the last week after Hodgson revealed the youngster had told him he was tired before the Euro 2016 qualifier in Estonia.
  • (20) I think this latest statement quite clearly makes the case that they have been ‘underzealous’ in the past and they are now doing their job.” Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, Macdonald said there was “a danger of elevating a pub pillory over a courtroom and I think that’s precisely what’s been happening in recent cases.