pil-lo-ry
noun :: A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
verb :: To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
verb :: Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.
"Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy." --Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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je-june
adj. :: Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
adj. :: Void of interest; barren; meager; dry.
"And there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases" --Anthony Trollope.
adj. :: Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
adj. :: Void of interest; barren; meager; dry.
"And there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases" --Anthony Trollope.
sar-to-ri-al
adj. :: Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.
"All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people's individuality, and had no sartorial existence of their own proper." -- Dickens, Charles
adj. :: Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.
"All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people's individuality, and had no sartorial existence of their own proper." -- Dickens, Charles
diff-i-dence
noun :: Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
"Well, hardening my heart, and putting my diffidence into my ragged pocket, I approached Peter Petrovitch, and halted before him more dead than alive." -- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
noun :: Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
"Well, hardening my heart, and putting my diffidence into my ragged pocket, I approached Peter Petrovitch, and halted before him more dead than alive." -- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
lam-baste
verb :: To scold sharply; berate.
"The child was lambasted by his parents for stealing."
verb :: To scold sharply; berate.
"The child was lambasted by his parents for stealing."
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