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/lˈidɪŋ kwˈɛstʃən/ Listen

Leading question

noun

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

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"Leading question" Quotes from Famous Books

... and Harry would remember the other; and among them they'd contrive to muddle the clearest head that ever worked a difficult problem in criminal Euclid. My game is to keep myself dark, and get all the light I can from other people. I shan't ask any leading question, but I shall wait quietly till the murder of Joseph Wilmot crops up in the conversation; and I don't suppose I shall have to wait long. Your business will be easy enough. You'll have letters to write, you will; and as ...

— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... then. Come, I'll read the evening paper to you on condition you tell me the leading questions of the day. What is just now the leading question of ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

... northwest, didn't get within gunshot of the outer forts before he found he had exposed his flank, and it was in danger of being turned—was that it, Rod?" and Josh, who was intensely interested in all military matters, eagerly waited to hear the answer to his leading question. ...

— The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line - Or, With the Allies in France • Ralph Marlow

... what the lawyers call a leading question. We did not desire to acknowledge we were from Natchez, as that would reveal us at once. We did not wish to say we were from Shreveport, as it would soon be proved we were not telling the truth. I replied that we had come from a plantation a few miles below. Simultaneously my companion ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

Words linked to "Leading question" : interrogative sentence, cross-examination, question, interrogation, interrogative