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cross-questioner

Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier)

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Examples

  • But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • “Do,” said I, very glad to dismiss the topic, and especially glad to have baffled the sagacity of my cross-questioner — if, indeed, I had baffled it; for though his words now led away from the dangerous point, his eyes, keen and watchful, seemed still preoccupied with the former idea.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.

    VII. Crawley of Queen’s Crawley 1917

  • He stared at the mass of files and papers before his cross-questioner.

    Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

  • Why those tears came I knew not; and to a strict cross-questioner I would probably have given some explanation having nothing to do with the _Gayatri_.

    My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • Once or twice Mrs. Pallant made me rather feel a cross-questioner, which

    Louisa Pallant Henry James 1879

  • They fear the intentions of the cross-questioner, and they hold themselves safest behind a crooked answer.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • But old Tinker was not to be pumped by this little cross-questioner; and signifying to her that bed was a place for sleeping, not conversation, set up in her corner of the bed such a snore as only the nose of innocence can produce.

    Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • His curiosity was insatiable; and as a cross-questioner, when fairly at work, for worming out a secret he had not his fellow.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

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