Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense pillories, present participle pillorying, past tense, past participle pilloried
1VERB [usually passive]使受公众(尤指记者)批评;使受羞辱 If someone is pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid. 使受公众(尤指记者)批评;使受羞辱
A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press. [beVERB-ed]
2N-COUNT 颈手枷(欧洲旧时用以将罪犯示众的刑具) A pillory is a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a form of punishment. 颈手枷(欧洲旧时用以将罪犯示众的刑具)