interrogatory

IPA: ɪntɛrˈɑgʌtɔri

(law) A formal question submitted to opposing party to answer, generally governed by court rule.
A question; an interrogation.

Examples of "interrogatory" in Sentences

The Goddamn Parrot made some kind of interrogatory noise.
The crime section of the blogopshere is in interrogatory mode tonight.
Mrs. Grimble recommenced the client interrogatory, turning on the smarm.
Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema -- …
What was clear before I had even launched the interrogatory list was that Attenborough is heartily sick of one question? about which animal he would choose to be himself.
Secrecy and strong interrogatory techniques (what you improperly call “torture” in a polemic way – like there was a comparison with those techniques and what we call in France the “supplices” applied before Revolution) are needed for strategic interest, to save lives.
Paul, who is now chairman of the monetary policy subcommittee that has direct oversight of the Fed, put his question in a interrogatory gust of 670 words, in which he said he couldn't find a definition for the dollar in the U.S. code and asked the chairman what, as he sought to manage the dollar, was his definition of it.