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Pillory
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PILLORY, punishment. wooden machine in which the neck of the culprit is inserted.
     2. This punishment has been superseded by the adoption of the penitentiary system in most of the states. Vide 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 797. The punishment of standing in the pillory, so far as the same was provided by the laws of the United States, was abolished by the act of congress of February 27, 1839, s. 5. See Baxr. on the Stat. 48, note.



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Despite the pillorying Hahn got from black leaders, he still topped Villaraigosa and bagged nearly one-fourth of their votes.
THE L.A. MAYOR'S RACE: BLACK VOTERS LIKELY TO LISTEN TO PARKS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
But they were angriest about Hirschhorn's pillorying of the minister of justice and police, the conservative nationalist Christoph Blocher (on whose visage the "dog" had "pissed"), and for using $200,000 in Swiss funds to mount an attack on his own country from France, where Hirschhorn lives.
Swiss diss: Jeff Rian on Thomas Hirschhorn's "Swiss-Swiss Democracy" by Rian, Jeff / Artforum International
The black political establishment -- Mark Ridley-Thomas, Jan Perry and Nate Holden -- must be totally out of touch if they think that those of us who live and vote in their districts won't remember their knee-jerk pillorying of the mayor.
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