Pilloried sentence example
pilloried
- Mrs. Needham, for example, was a notorious bawd who died three days after being pilloried in 1731.
- Two equally villainous adversaries, but only one is pilloried.
- Pinto and some of the Jesuit biographers, who have pilloried Ataide as actuated solely by malice and self-interest.
- He surrendered, and his defence appears to have been injudiciously conducted; at any rate he was fined 200 marks, and condemned to be pilloried three times, to be imprisoned indefinitely, and to find sureties for his good behaviour during seven years.
- As for the denunciations, apart from the charge of insincerity, it appears that the scribes in question are pilloried for the defects - or the excesses - of their qualities.Advertisement