Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Interrogator   /ˌɪntˈɛrəgˌeɪtər/   Listen
Interrogator

noun
1.
A questioner who is excessively harsh.  Synonym: inquisitor.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Interrogator" Quotes from Famous Books



... got time to fool with 'im," the mountaineer looked restlessly at the open book and then back at his interrogator. "I've got to study. You go, if you think you'd ought, an' take ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... had had enough, and he cowered away from his interrogator, protesting his good faith. So genuine were his terrified protestations that the ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams

... difficult of investigation, and withal so important, that I feel a certain amount of timidity in taking up the subject. The natural suspiciousness of the Manbo and his inclination not to answer questions truthfully until he has assured himself of his interrogator's motives in asking it are the principal sources of this difficulty. Then again his fear of offending the divinities, coupled with his absolute subjection in spiritual affairs to his priests, do not render the undertaking easier. And finally ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... you will not prove the testament to be a forgery. The signing and witnessing were done in my presence," said my uncle. He rose from his chair, instinctively locked up his bureau; and, if such stern features could assume an aspect of still greater asperity, it was when the interrogator thus continued:—"You were, as you observe, Mr S——, an eye-witness to the due subscription of this deed. If I am to clear myself from the imputation of unjustifiable curiosity, I must beg leave to examine yourself and the surviving witness apart, merely as to the minutiae of the circumstances ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... reverse. Dr. Keate, the flogging headmaster of Eton, was described by the seer as a beautiful girl, with golden hair and blue eyes. The modern explanation of successes would apparently be that the boy does, occasionally, see the reflection of his interrogator's thoughts. ...
— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang

... at that moment. Let the counsel for the plaintiff rest assured, however, that the answer to that particular question, when given, would prove, like the general answer of the defence, of a nature that the interrogator would, ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... Mrs. Dodd, knowing who her interrogator meant. "Leastways we always called her miss, for she is ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander



Words linked to "Interrogator" :   enquirer, asker, inquirer, interrogate, inquisitor, questioner, querier



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com