(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.