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leading question

NOUN
  1. a question phrased in such a way as to suggest the desired answer; a lawyer may ask leading questions on cross-examination

How To Use leading question In A Sentence

  • The judge told him not to ask the witness leading questions.
  • He abdicated his role of objective journalist by repeatedly asking the envoy leading questions, loaded with venomous descriptions of the prime minister.
  • The judge told him not to ask the witness leading questions.
  • Now it transpires she was making a documentary for a school PROJECT that involved wandering around the island asking people leading questions. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the suggestibility scores were highly elevated and indicate that he tends to give in very readily to leading questions and interrogative pressure.
  • What is less obvious in this sort of reportage is its selectivity or the use of leading questions.
  • Ask a few leading questions and I find a man who is gleefully off-message in every respect.
  • The judge told him not to ask the witness leading questions.
  • a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, Saint Ronan's Well
  • While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill? St. Ronan's Well
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