0 a person who asks detailed questions of someone, especially a witness in a trial, in order to discover if they have been telling the truth:
No cross-examiner, however brilliant, can make much headway against a witness who is telling the truth.
As a cross-examiner she was courteous, yet often surprisingly deadly.
Liddle is a brutal cross-examiner of the many witnesses he calls.
A skilful cross-examiner may fairly hope to put an official member to shame by making him appear either ignorant or dishonest.
There are a number of occasions on which a cross-examiner will be interested in a woman's general reputation.
That is how the cross-examiner shows the inherent weakness and folly of the matter which is being examined by the tribunal.
In the ordinary way a cross-examiner on behalf of the defendant raises such matters only when the question of consent arises.
When the information has to be produced quickly, these conditions, which help the cross-examiner and weaken the cross-examined, need to be provided.
