🔤 Pillory ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
ruswai ka khamba, saza ka lakri ka frame, sar e aam zaleel karna, sakht tanqeed karna
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ENGLISH
📚noun and verb
pillory
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈpɪləri/
Phonetic: /pil uh ree/
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DEFINITION
a wooden framework for public punishment, public humiliation, to expose someone to harsh criticism
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
The medieval town displayed offenders in a pillory before the gathered crowd.
Newspapers pilloried the official for accepting bribes from contractors.
The court abolished the pillory as a cruel public punishment.
Critics pilloried the film for ignoring serious historical inaccuracies.
The disgraced leader faced public pillory after the scandal became known.
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