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hostile witness
noun
- a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him
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"Never believe a hostile witness until he has safely stood the fire of cross-examination," he remarked, oracularly.
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She proceeded to cross-examine him after the fashion of a barrister handling a hostile witness.
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When you set out to prove a case out of the mouth of a hostile witness, you are embarking on a very doubtful enterprise.
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A hostile witness might even have insinuated that she was “posing.”
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She examined Mrs. Tams about the invalid's health as a lawyer examines a hostile witness.
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