Pilloried in A Sentence

    1

    As for the denunciations, apart from the charge of insincerity, it appears that the scribes in question are pilloried for the defects - or the excesses - of their qualities.

    2

    He surrendered, and his defence appears to have been injudiciously conducted; at any rate he was fined 200 marks, and condemned to be pilloried three times, to be imprisoned indefinitely, and to find sureties for his good behaviour during seven years.

    3

    Mrs. Needham, for example, was a notorious bawd who died three days after being pilloried in 1731.

    4

    Pinto and some of the Jesuit biographers, who have pilloried Ataide as actuated solely by malice and self-interest.

    5

    Two equally villainous adversaries, but only one is pilloried.