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• The pillory was used to punish minor offenders including cheats, liars, rioters and homosexuals, by shaming them in public.
• By the way, all the folks pillorying Matt for supposedly peddling a “guilt-by-association” argument are themselves using an inane, broad brush stroke argument. Matthew Yglesias » Kucinich Sides With Insurance Industry, GOP to Oppose “Insurance Industry Giveaway”
• Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy. The Scarlet Letter
• If barely prosecuted, the real players in our last crash face a long pop-culture pillorying. Danny Schechter: After Larry Summers, What? Will We Continue to Go Down Hill?
• And my father was honoured to gie his testimony baith in the cage and in the pillory, as is specially mentioned in the books of Peter Walker the packman, that your honour, I dare say, kens, for he uses maist partly the westland of Scotland. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• The pillory was occasionally used as a penalty for free people, as for instance in the case of Samuel Thornton, a carpenter sentenced to spend four hours in the pillory in Kingston for his participation in a fraud.
• The earlier book made the business best-seller list by pillorying practices propagated in the name of re-engineering. Reworking The Workplace
• The "mountainous flunkeydom" at Royal levées is a frequent incentive to ridicule with pen and pencil; Punch is happy in pillorying the Morning Post for the use (A the phrase, "the dense mass of the nobility and gentry" at one of Lady Derby's receptions; while he applauds the Queen for setting a good example by giving early juvenile parties in Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
• ‘In the past, any sergeant who failed to answer the summons was guilty of an offence and liable to fines or the pillory,’ said assize organiser Maureen Singleton.
• Church leaders protest it is unfair to pillory Benedict, who has acted far more vigorously than Pope John Paul II to stamp out sex abuse.