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pillory   (TTS Sound)

The noun pillory has 1 sense

• pillory -- (a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn)

The verb pillory has 3 senses

• pillory, gibbet -- (expose to ridicule or public scorn)


• pillory -- (punish by putting in a pillory)


• savage, blast, pillory, crucify -- (criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage")