Synonyms for questioning
ques·tion·ing

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1. questioning, inquiringadjective

   a request for information

   Synonyms:
   inquiring

   Antonyms:
   trusting, incurious, unperplexed, trustful

2. questioning, quizzicaladjective

   perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

   "he had a quizzical expression"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, teasing, wondering(a), inquisitive, sceptical, skeptical, quizzical, doubting, mocking

   Antonyms:
   trusting, incurious, unperplexed, trustful

3. doubting, questioning, skeptical, scepticaladjective

   marked by or given to doubt

   "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, unbelieving, wondering(a), inquisitive, sceptical, skeptical, quizzical, doubting, disbelieving

   Antonyms:
   trusting, incurious, trustful, unperplexed

4. inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)adjective

   showing curiosity

   "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"

   Antonyms:
   trustful, unperplexed, incurious, trusting

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1. questioningadjective

   Synonyms:
   interrogatory, inquisitive, quizzical, inquisitorial, catechistic, curious, heckling

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1. List of paraphrases for "questioning":

   interrogation, interrogations, interrogating, interviewing, interview, examination, challenging, interrogate, doubting

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1. Tyler Jacob:

   I realized that once they started questioning me that they… couldn't find anything against me because… I'm just an American teacher who chased after his wife in a foreign country, i was okay after the third day of them questioning me because I knew nothing was going to happen, but it was… a scary time to be stuck in a place like Russian prison.

2. Jerry Nadler:

   There is no middle ground, it's none of the business of a witness to try to dictate try to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning Jerry Nadler are.

3. Mandeep Tiwana:

   Because of the nature of their work in exposing governance failures and grave rights violations several governments have created a bogey to demonize and stigmatize, in public eyes, NGOs and activists uncovering abuse, questioning the messenger's credentials is a common tactic that helps deviate the argument from the real issues and muddies the public discourse.

4. Mitch McConnell:

   As I said earlier, and I think you already know, we have hired a female assistant to go on staff and to ask these questions in a respectful and professional way, we want this hearing to be handled very professionally, not a political sideshow like you saw the -- put on by the Democrats when they were questioning Brett Kavanaugh.

5. CLIFFORD VILLALON:

   There is greed in questioning if you keep on asking the same question.