ADJECTIVE
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diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation
a probing inquiry
a searching investigation of their past dealings
How To Use inquisitory In A Sentence
- A wonderful message indeed, considering that Mr. Sullivan himself was the chief architect of that inquisitory foray, which he pressed unrelentingly. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
- Dr. Pappas transferred to the inquisitory where you were being held. Security
- From abroad this looks like a rebirth of inquisitory methods. Libel Law Has No Place In Scientific Disputes
- The questions weren't particularly hostile, inquisitory or, even, political. Stafford, Hugh A.
- You were kept under drugs most of the way to help you rest -- they'd knocked you around quite a bit in the inquisitory. Security
- An offside room had been rigged as an inquisitory. Operation Luna
- Broad investigatory, inquisitory and subpoena powers were given to that body of citizens drawn from the community; like powers were not intended to be in the hands of the prosecutors of crime. Is That Legal?: February 2007 Archives
- She drew farther back into her corner of the sofa, waving him to a seat beside her, as though to bring his inquisitory eyes on a level where her own could command them; but he stood where he was, unconscious of her gesture, and merely repeating: "Tell me. The Fruit of the Tree