pillory

How To Use pillory In A Sentence

• Far removed from this conception is the condition of the many who have no "casa," but only ghastly walls within which the most intimate acts of life are exposed upon the pillory. The Montessori Method
• The Foes were Dissenters, Protestants who did not belong to the Anglican Church, and Daniel's ironic attack on the church landed him a three-day stretch in the pillory.
• Thomas had come home, to a Bolton where the pillory was still a force, where unrest and distress were still to be overcome.
• What argufies so many words?" said the unfeeling Captain; "it is but a slit of the ear; it only looks as if you had been in the pillory. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
• That sort of behaviour could get her flogged, or at the vest least locked in a pillory for a while.
• This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement. How Not to be a Writer
• How much gumption does it take to pillory the malfeasant editors, reporters, and publisher who turned to compost ages ago?
• “Ghull,” a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in England the veteris vestigia ruris. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The punishments for which may be confiscation of the fish, imprisonment, the pillory, and the offender giving up his occupation for a year and a day.
• The pillory was a set of stocks that imprisoned head and arms and was used to humiliate petty offenders, who would be insulted and perhaps pelted with mud by passers-by.