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hostile witness

noun

  1. a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

"Never believe a hostile witness until he has safely stood the fire of cross-examination," he remarked, oracularly.

She proceeded to cross-examine him after the fashion of a barrister handling a hostile witness.

When you set out to prove a case out of the mouth of a hostile witness, you are embarking on a very doubtful enterprise.

A hostile witness might even have insinuated that she was “posing.”

She examined Mrs. Tams about the invalid's health as a lawyer examines a hostile witness.

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