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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pillory .
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Examples
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Sir David said if Parole Board members felt they would be "pilloried" for making a mistake that was "bound" to have an effect on them.
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Sir Michael Scholar warned they were being 'pilloried' for publishing objective information and insisted immigration statistics had been released as they were clearly 'in the public interest'.
Gates of Vienna 2009
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Sir Michael Scholar's accusation that statisticians are being "pilloried" for publishing independent and objective statistics.
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On the one side they will find themselves and their colleagues pilloried at town meetings for voting to abolish Medicare.
Robert Creamer: Budget Battle Opens Two Huge Rifts Within GOP Robert Creamer 2011
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On the one side they will find themselves and their colleagues pilloried at town meetings for voting to abolish Medicare.
Robert Creamer: Budget Battle Opens Two Huge Rifts Within GOP Robert Creamer 2011
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Subprime mortgage companies are being and/or will be pilloried for this, but Wall Street and the unduly insured banking industry are in it up to their teeth.
Worst Advice to Libertarians Ever?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's the same feeling I get when I'm not really paying attention to a conversation and laugh at the joke before processing that the joke's been made at the expense of Catholics, or some other easily pilloried group.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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Now those lawmakers — Rick Boucher in Virginia and John Boccieri and Zack Space in Ohio most notably — are being pilloried for their troubles.
Democrats Pin Hopes on Obama Gerald F. Seib 2010
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Journalists have been excoriated for missing what was apparently obvious; homeowners blamed; Wall Street pilloried; economists accused of intellectual dishonesty.
Robert Teitelman: Frydman and Goldberg's Beyond Mechanical Markets Robert Teitelman 2011
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Journalists have been excoriated for missing what was apparently obvious; homeowners blamed; Wall Street pilloried; economists accused of intellectual dishonesty.
Robert Teitelman: Frydman and Goldberg's Beyond Mechanical Markets Robert Teitelman 2011
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