Pillory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PILLORY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hold up to public ridicule
• put (someone) in a pillory.
• attack or ridicule publicly
• To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
• Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.
• expose to ridicule or public scorn
• punish by putting in a pillory
• criticize harshly or violently
• ridicule publicly
NOUN:
• a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly imprisoned and exposed to public abuse.
• frame in which an offender was locked and exposed to public abuse
• A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to expose to public ridicule or abuse

Words related to PILLORY

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Words that contain PILLORY

pillorying16

How to use PILLORY in a sentence

• Most of them had taken the air in the pillory, and others had conjured themselves up to the gallows.
• I think the man who invented the art should have been put in a pillory for the rest of his natural life.
• Defoe was tried, found guilty of seditious libel, and sentenced to be fined, to stand three days in the pillory, and to be imprisoned.
• Defoe was fined, exposed in the pillory three times, and sent to Newgate prison.
• This worthy Barrister will be extolled for this audacious slander of thousands, for which, if applied to any one individual, he would be in danger of the pillory.
• Thus we find, in addition to the prison, the whipping-post and the pillory, the ducking-stool.
• Hester said nothing, but turned away, and waited in the crowded market-place beside the pillory with Pearl, while the procession re-formed after public worship.
• The pillory was a simple cube of masonry, some ten feet high, and hollow within.
• I was standing on a pillory, set up in Parliament Square, facing the Abbey.
• No Abolitionist has ever dared to pillory the slave-propagandists so conspicuously as they are doing it for themselves every day.
• For doing so in England, he would have been put in the pillory, or had his ears cut off, or been sent to jail.
• Like the performers in a pillory, we seemed to have been elevated only for the benefit of a general pelting.
• John Wesley had had his deserts he would have been exhibited in a pillory and used as a target for stale eggs.
• An opera, like a PILLORY, may be said To NAIL OUR EARS down, and EXPOSE OUR HEAD.
• The writings even of the most esteemed poets of that period contain passages which now would be accounted to deserve the pillory.
• This, it was hoped, would eventually put my shoulders down and my head up, and in the meantime I had the appearance of a young woman walking about in a portable pillory.
• Exposure in the pillory was a favourite prescription, a kind of judicial panacea, to which all sorts of the morally infirm were introduced in turn.
• He was then conveyed to the pillory, accompanied by minstrels, and there he had to abide at the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen.
• In 1764 a whipping-post, stocks, cage, and pillory were erected in front of the new jail.
• He was therefore sentenced, by the same judge that had liberated Sarah Morduck, to imprisonment for a year, and to stand in the pillory three times as a cheat and liar.
• While he was whipped at the cart, and stood on the pillory, he harangued the populace, and declaimed violently against the tyranny of bishops.
• If bankrupt, he should be condemned, as formerly, to the pillory on the Place de la Bourse, and exposed for two hours, wearing a green cap.
• The bishop’s bailiff held a court within the palace precincts, with pillory and stocks.
• In the conclusion of the Hymn to the Pillory, which is written with great strength of expression, he assigns the reasons for his being doomed to that ignominy.
• Yet neither the cords about his arms nor the pillory around his neck could contain the gladness of his heart.
• I used to feel that I was meant to be happy, and even to make people happy, and that I had been caught and pinned down in a sort of pillory.
• He fancied himself side by side with him in the posts of the same pillory.
• A lover despised, mocked, grotesque, hideous, exposed to laughter on that pillory called a theatre, has for me an extraordinary attraction.
• The Loyalists, for years, put Boston as in a pillory for punishment.
• A third person, we have said, stood upon the pillory.
• He was cited in the Star Chamber, and sentenced to stand in the pillory, to lose both ears, to pay a heavy fine, and to undergo imprisonment for life.
• These were branding with a hot iron in the hand or on the cheek, whipping on the bare back, and public exposure in the pillory.

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