pillory

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
2. verb To put in a pillory.
3. verb To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
4. verb To criticize harshly.

Similar words

stocks gibbet penance little-ease palmer pillarbox pell madrier picket pulpit

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Word family

pilloried pillories pillorying