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UK
/ɪntɪɹˈɒɡətəɹˌi/
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[ US /ˌɪntɛˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɛˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation
NOUN
- formal systematic questioning
How To Use interrogatory In A Sentence
- Tall of stature, broad "shouldered," an open contenance, and steady eye, he is just the man to draw forth from passers-by the interrogatory, Who is he? An Apology for African Methodism
- It is much better to get into such things in the End Conversation than to reserve them for the more interrogatory or confrontational setting of the routine questioning of the drug history.
- The "Sho 'nuff" is not declamatory now; not fully interrogatory, either; circumflexed.) "Our leader - (" Yes?) - is the man - Deadspin
- We have a long interrogatory of St. Phileas before him from the presidial registers. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
- He could be set off by the merest interrogatory twitch, and had no compunction about personifying the ‘composer as intellectual’.
- His technique was always testing and interrogatory, probing our logic and beliefs and the validity of our observations.
- Here are some proposed rule changes and potential interrogatory disclosures.
- Her comments are made more critical by several additional comments that she presents in the form of closed questions, all of which are more evaluative than interrogatory.
- Rather, this finding would appear to indicate a lack of interrogatory concern, which may be characteristic of offenders.
- A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist