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pillory

verbCommon GRE wordMore P words

to expose someone to public ridicule or scorn

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Pillory in a sentence

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The tabloids pilloried the actor for a single off-hand remark.

Antonyms
praisehonorextol

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Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Pillory (verb) means to expose someone to public ridicule or scorn
Here is pillory used in an example sentence: "The tabloids pilloried the actor for a single off-hand remark."
Common synonyms for pillory include ridicule, denounce, lambaste, excoriate.
Antonyms of pillory include praise, honor, extol.
Pillory is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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