| What was once an excellent idea by Rentoul, pillorying lazy and often evasive clichés used in public life, has become something of a scourge. |
| Who ever proposed to insist on pillorying every case of spasmodic adultery? |
| He knew the boy could not do it, and this was only a formula he went through previous to pillorying the lad. |
| Cynical council tax payers are already pillorying beleaguered jobsworths for wasting their cash. |
| For that to happen, the Court of Auditors would need to embark on a consistent naming and shaming, in other words the public pillorying of those Member States who fail to get their act together. |
| Which is probably just as well, given the forests that have been destroyed in service of pillorying John Edwards. |
