Definition of "pillorying" []

• Present participle of pillory. (verb)

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• "* The White House-versus-left battle continues: Glenn Greenwald makes the case that the White House has every right to push back on lefty critics -- but he adds, and I agree, that pillorying or browbeating them isn't going to do jack to help Dem among base voters who are disaffected with Obama policies."
• "This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement."
• "* Dems already targeting GOP on spending cuts: The DCCC, in its first major ad offensive, is going up in the districts of 19 House Republicans, pillorying them for supporting cuts to education and research on science and technology."