hostile witness


noun
  1. a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him

Words Nearby hostile witness

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

How to use hostile witness in a sentence

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

    Grey Town | Gerald Baldwin
  • She proceeded to cross-examine him after the fashion of a barrister handling a hostile witness.

    A Traitor's Wooing | Headon Hill
  • When you set out to prove a case out of the mouth of a hostile witness, you are embarking on a very doubtful enterprise.

    The Land of Strong Men | Arthur M. Chisholm
  • A hostile witness might even have insinuated that she was “posing.”

    A Veldt Official | Bertram Mitford
  • She examined Mrs. Tams about the invalid's health as a lawyer examines a hostile witness.

    The Price of Love | Arnold Bennett