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单词 pillory
释义
pillory
verb[T]
uk
/ˈpɪl.ər.i/us
/ˈpɪl.ɚ.i/
toseverelycriticizesomeone,especiallyin apublicway:
严厉抨击；（尤指）公开批评
Althoughregularlypilloried by thepressas anobnoxiousloudmouth, he is,nonetheless, aneffectivepolitician.尽管经常被新闻媒体辱骂为说话不中听的讨厌鬼，但他毕竟还是个有影响力的政客。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disapproving & criticizing
  • anathematize
  • animadversion
  • aspersion
  • assail
  • aw
  • backbite
  • criticism
  • deprecate
  • dim
  • fault
  • niggle
  • nitpick
  • opprobrious
  • peanut gallery
  • people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonesidiom
  • personalization
  • personalize
  • philippic
  • sarky
  • tear
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(Definition ofpilloryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpillory

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He even ridiculed his illustrious musical fellow tribesmen, pillorying them mercilessly for their claims to be artists; it was impossible to deceive him for long.
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Major offences against honour by inhabitants were seldom followed by a punishment at thepillory.
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So dramatists who fall below the standard of good usage - and here we are clearly dealing with the substandard - must be pilloried and their influence checked.
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Here in apillorymade fast.
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I believe that if we were to take such a light and frivolous decision it would put us into thepilloryall around the world.
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When known, they were shunned, and when detected, they were pilloried.
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We have no desire or intention topilloryany firm.
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Their actions have led to the whole sector being publicly pilloried.
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It is a very simple suggestion, but in would at once, so to speak,pillorythe questions which entailed expenditure.
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I repeat that the only people who would be pilloried are those of whom something not very honourable would be disclosed.
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If we had not done it in that way, we should have been pilloried for extravagance in advertising in the wrong place.
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They have mentioned several times the fact that local education authorities do not want to have discretion because they would be pilloried at local elections.
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But it is brought forward by people who want to continue these people in thepilloryfor all time.
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Give us a chance of defending ourselves, and allow us to put other people in thepillory.
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Will he stop pillorying consumer expenditure in the way that he has done in recent speeches?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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