及物动词

1. 使受公众（尤指记者）批评；使受羞辱
If someone is pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid.

2. 颈手枷（欧洲旧时用以将罪犯示众的刑具）
A pillory is a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands. In Europe in former times criminals were sometimes locked in a pillory as a form of punishment.

1. a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck
offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn