Usually means: Publicly criticized or ridiculed harshly.
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  1. pilloried: Merriam-Webster
  2. pilloried: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pilloried: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pilloried: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pilloried, pilloried: Wordnik
  6. pilloried: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pilloried: Wiktionary
  8. Pilloried, pilloried: Dictionary.com
  9. Pilloried: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pilloried: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Pilloried: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pilloried: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. pilloried: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pilloried: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pilloried: Legal dictionary

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  1. pilloried: Encyclopedia

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  1. pilloried: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pillory)

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