verb
definition
To put in a pillory.
definition
To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
definition
To criticize harshly.
Examples of pilloried in a Sentence
Mrs. Needham, for example, was a notorious bawd who died three days after being pilloried in 1731.
Two equally villainous adversaries, but only one is pilloried.
Pinto and some of the Jesuit biographers, who have pilloried Ataide as actuated solely by malice and self-interest.
He surrendered, and his defence appears to have been injudiciously conducted; at any rate he was fined 200 marks, and condemned to be pilloried three times, to be imprisoned indefinitely, and to find sureties for his good behaviour during seven years.
As for the denunciations, apart from the charge of insincerity, it appears that the scribes in question are pilloried for the defects - or the excesses - of their qualities.