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verb | noun pillorypillory1 /ˈpɪləri/ verb (, pilloried, pillorying) [transitive usually passive] VERB TABLEpillory |
Present | I, you, we, they | pillory | | he, she, it | pillories | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pilloried | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pilloried | | he, she, it | has pilloried | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pilloried | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pillory | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pilloried |
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Present | I | am pillorying | | he, she, it | is pillorying | | you, we, they | are pillorying | Past | I, he, she, it | was pillorying | | you, we, they | were pillorying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pillorying | | he, she, it | has been pillorying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pillorying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pillorying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pillorying |
if someone is pilloried, he or she is publicly criticized by a lot of people: pillory somebody for something The Democrats pilloried the president for his military policies. verb | noun pillorypillory2 noun (plural pillories) [countable] ETYMOLOGYpillory2Origin: 1200-1300 Old French pilori a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands to be locked into, used in past times as a way of publicly punishing someone → the stocks |