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inquisitor
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  • The Inquisitor keeps asking me questions I can't answer.  (source)
    Inquisitor = someone whose job is to ask questions for an investigation -- typically in an excessively harsh manner
  • He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend.  (source)
    inquisitor = harsh questioner
  • From "The Grand Inquisitor", The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)†  (source)
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  • And besides, I think she knows you're grilling me and wanted to leave me to my inquisitor?'†  (source)
  • I leave that to the inquisitors.†  (source)
  • "Thank you," she said, and it sounded odd, as if she had thanked an Inquisitor for torture.†  (source)
  • I remember how the nuns got upset when I called the Spanish inquisitors Nazis.†  (source)
  • "I am beginning to understand why your mother calls you the inquisitor," she said.†  (source)
  • The proper inquisitors are the representatives of the nation.†  (source)
  • Really, you'd think she'd want to be forewarned, in case the International Inquisitor got hold of it.†  (source)
  • No doubt their chief aim was artistic torture, but some at least of the inquisitors must have had a touch of scientific curiosity.†  (source)
  • It was the Grand Inquisitor descending over us, the top of his head a shiny skin cap.†  (source)
  • Then, having removed a plank from his floor, and nothing remaining but a simple ceiling between him and the room beneath, in which the interrogatories were made, he heard all that passed between the inquisitors and the accused.†  (source)
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