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Though he didn't think they had the right to demand his testimony, he was polite to his inquisitors.
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'"I think the appointment of the Inquisitor is a first step towards ensuring that Hogwarts has a headmaster in whom we can all repose our confidence," said a Ministry insider last night.' (source)Inquisitor = an investigator (with the implication that questioning will be excessively harsh)
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She looked at me the way an inquisitor must have glared at his poor victims. (source)inquisitor = a questioner who is excessively harsh
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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
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He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend. (source)inquisitor = harsh questioner
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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)
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I leave that to the inquisitors.† (source)
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"Thank you," she said, and it sounded odd, as if she had thanked an Inquisitor for torture.† (source)
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I remember how the nuns got upset when I called the Spanish inquisitors Nazis.† (source)
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"I am beginning to understand why your mother calls you the inquisitor," she said.† (source)
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The proper inquisitors are the representatives of the nation.† (source)
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Really, you'd think she'd want to be forewarned, in case the International Inquisitor got hold of it.† (source)
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No doubt their chief aim was artistic torture, but some at least of the inquisitors must have had a touch of scientific curiosity.† (source)
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It was the Grand Inquisitor descending over us, the top of his head a shiny skin cap.† (source)
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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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