pillory

Speech parts

1. pillory - Noun

2. pillory - Verb

Meaning

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.

To set in, or punish with, the pillory.

Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

savage gibbet blast crucify flay bash lampoon attack hammer pan slam attacking knock slate mock
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Antonyms

honor celebrate praise acclaim admiration hail
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Hypernyms

display exhibit expose punish knock criticise

Derivatives

pillories pilloried pillorying

Examples

The press savaged the new President Source: Internet

The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage Source: Internet

According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health. Source: Internet

Oates was sentenced to imprisonment including an annual ordeal of being taken out for two days pillory plus one day of whipping while tied to a moving cart. Source: Internet

In spite of his emphatic declaration that science is not technology, Dewdney seems here to pillory neural nets as bad science when most of those devising them are just trying to be good engineers. Source: Internet

Its exterminators' history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priest will not avail to redeem them." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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