pillory 的 2 个定义
plural pil·lo·ries.
- a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
pil·lo·ried, pil·lo·ry·ing.
- to set in the pillory.
- to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse: The candidate mercilessly pilloried his opponent.
更多pillory例句
- Compare the British pillory of Tebbit with the reaction in India to the Kashmiri students.
- “Rails” and “lacerate,” two other words swiftly elected for pillory, were classic Tejpal, overblown, mannered, theatrical.
- And because the pillory of a bad book is as culturally stimulating as the lauding of a good book.
- It may be gratifying to discover such an example, in favor of the pillory!
- When were the last known instances of bull-baiting and cock-fighting in Worcester, and when was the pillory last used?
- East Looe boasts a further relic of its past in the ancient pillory preserved at the porch of its town hall.
- In place of such we have an interesting memorial of Looe's former use of the "cage," a companion instrument to the pillory.
- He was fined five hundred pounds and placed in the pillory; the Chief Justice wished that he might be also whipped.