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Cross-questioner   /krɔs-kwˈɛstʃənər/   Listen
Cross-questioner

noun
1.
Someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier).  Synonym: cross-examiner.





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"Cross-questioner" Quotes from Famous Books



... "preses," or chief moderator, in all debates held therein. He was a shrewd fellow and a bold one. A humorous and inquisitive cunning lurked in the corner of his grey and restless eye. His curiosity was insatiable; and as a cross-questioner, when fairly at work, for worming out a secret he had not his fellow. His brain was a general deposit for odd scraps, and a reservoir in which flowed all stray news about the country. He was an abstract and chronicle of the ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... "What a cross-questioner you are, Corona! but I will answer you. Again it was by her own desire that I presented her as Rose Flowers, which was not an alias, as she explained to me, but a part of her true name. She had been baptized ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth


Words linked to "Cross-questioner" :   questioner, enquirer, querier, cross question, asker, inquirer


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