"hostile witness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hostile witnesses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hostile witness (plural hostile witnesses)
  1. (law) A witness who intentionally gives unfavorable evidence against the party that called him or her as its witness. Categories (topical): Law, People Synonyms: adverse witness, turncoat witness, unfavourable witness Translations (person called to testify by a party to whom that witness is opposed): 敵對證人 (Chinese Mandarin), 敌对证人 (díduì zhèngrén) (Chinese Mandarin), testigo desfavorable [masculine] (Spanish), พยานปรปักษ์ (Thai)

Inflected forms

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