pillorying

Verb

pillory (third-person singular simple present pillories, present participle pillorying, simple past and past participle pilloried)

1. (transitive) To put in a pillory.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
   • There was no malice in my rubbish; but it laughed at the captain. It laughed at a man to whom such a thing was new and strange and dreadful. I did not know then, though I do now, that there is no suffering comparable with that which a private person feels when he is for the first time pilloried in...1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 50, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC
3. (transitive) To criticize harshly.
   • The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.2011 September 24, Aled Williams, “Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport

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