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What does pillorying mean?

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  1. present participle of pillory
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For that to happen, the Court of Auditors would need to embark on a consistent naming and shaming, in other words the public pillorying of those Member States who fail to get their act together.
Cynical council tax payers are already pillorying beleaguered jobsworths for wasting their cash.
Who ever proposed to insist on pillorying every case of spasmodic adultery?
He was sentenced to a fine, whipping, defrocking, life imprisonment and pillorying four times a year for the rest of his life.
Which is probably just as well, given the forests that have been destroyed in service of pillorying John Edwards.
Hollywood's show biz kids seem to take particular pleasure in pillorying goofballs, which hardly satisfies.

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