pillory
noun
a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
pillories
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pluralof pillory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof pillory (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
pillorynouna wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
Example Sentences
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They've called their album "the record", in a play on the faux-humility of Bob Dylan's backing group The Band; while the song Leonard Cohen simultaneously praises and pillories one of Dacus's inspirations.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023
Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
The fact that these authorities do not address the general public, unlike the intellectuals Ross pillories, does not raise his democratic hackles.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
I shall have to humiliate them in the pillories of the national charts, and in doing so buy myself a big house.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2019
They appointed justices for these important towns, had prisons, gallows, pillories, and ducking-stools, and did their utmost to maintain law and order.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
