leading question
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]leading question (plural leading questions)
- A question that suggests the answer or that contains the information for which the examiner is looking.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:
- He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.
Translations
[edit]suggestive interrogation
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