If someone is pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid. A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press. = ridicule. if someone is pilloried, they are publicly criticized by a lot of people, especially in newspapers etc. pillories a wooden frame with holes for someone's head and hands to be locked into, used in the past as a way of publicly punishing someone the stocks stock (9)
a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn punish by putting in a pillory expose to ridicule or public scorn
{i} stocks, device that holds a prisoner by the head and hands (used as a form of public punishment); instrumentality to expose a person to public derision
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it