0 present participle of pillory
1 to severely criticize someone, especially in a public way:
Although regularly pilloried by the press as an obnoxious loudmouth, he is, nonetheless, an effective politician.
He even ridiculed his illustrious musical fellow tribesmen, pillorying them mercilessly for their claims to be artists; it was impossible to deceive him for long.
Will he stop pillorying consumer expenditure in the way that he has done in recent speeches?
That seems to me to be, however unintentional, an unfair pillorying of particular interests.
In that way he will be spared the constant pillorying that will take place.
The whole object of these provisions, which was discussed at the tripartite conference, was to prevent the undue pillorying of the farmer in his locality.
The second point raises the question of unilateral action in pillorying offenders.
I do not believe in pillorying individuals for what is part of a wrong system.
I feel that it is absolutely wrong to use this type of inquiry as a means of pillorying people who are in no position to answer back in any way.
