pilloried in English

verb

1

put (someone) in the pillory.

2

attack or ridicule publicly.

he found himself pilloried by members of his own party

synonyms: attack, criticize, censure, condemn, denigrate, lambaste, savage, stigmatize, denounce, knock, slam, pan, bash, crucify, hammer, pummel, excoriate, ridicule, jeer at, sneer at, deride, mock, scorn, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, scoff at, tease, taunt, rib, josh, razz

verb

attack, criticize, censure, condemn, denigrate, lambaste, savage, stigmatize, denounce, knock, slam, pan, bash, crucify, hammer, pummel, excoriate
ridicule, jeer at, sneer at, deride, mock, scorn, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, scoff at, tease, taunt, rib, josh, razz
blast, savage, crucify
gibbet

Use "pilloried" in a sentence

1. He was pilloried, but she escaped without blemish.

2. Carter was pilloried for his military policies.

3. She was pilloried in the press for her extravagant parties.

4. He was pilloried in the newspapers and his resignation demanded.

5. He was regularly pilloried by the press for his radical ideas.

6. Feminists who recognize this contradiction are pilloried for their pains.

7. 12 The education secretary was pilloried by the press for his latest proposals.

8. 9 He was regularly pilloried by the press for his radical ideas.

9. The education secretary was pilloried by the press for his latest proposals.

10. First, it should he held up for critical inspection, pilloried when necessary.

11. 16 She was pilloried in the press for her extravagant parties.

12. Synonyms for Arraigned include attacked, censured, condemned, criticised, criticized, admonished, castigated, chastised, lambasted and pilloried

13. Before he was taken away from Strasbourg, he was pilloried on the scaffold of the guillotine.

14. That's how scientists think the destructive and oft - pilloried mussel got into the Great Lakes.

15. A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.

16. Middleton suffered the ultimate humiliation of being pilloried by his colleagues in front of the television cameras.

17. WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS JOHN RUSSELL Jim was stupefied to find himself once more pilloried and portraited and Ballyhooed in the newspapers

18. His erstwhile followers who are being pilloried have to take it, much as the emperor’s ministers used to try to survive his Bastinadoing, in order that they might carry on the social order in

19. Becoming the first lady ratchets up the pressure as Obama endures the Secret Service security bubble, has every public utterance and outfit attacked by opponents, gets pilloried as a closet radical, and soldiers on with healthy-food initiatives