inquisition

interrogatoire

Suite de questions souvent si nombreuses ou insistantes qu’elles mettent la personne interrogée mal à l’aise.

En anglais simple : A series of questions, often so many or so forceful that they make someone uncomfortable.

• Dinner turned into an inquisition.
• I endured an inquisition about my new boyfriend.
• Why does every family visit involve an inquisition?

Comment l'utiliser : inquisition about something (I faced an inquisition about where I had been.)

Synonymes : interrogation, questioning, grilling

Expressions courantes : endless inquisition, face an inquisition, inquisition about something

inquisition, chasse aux sorcières

Enquête jugée injuste parce qu’elle vise des personnes à cause de leurs croyances ou de leurs opinions.

En anglais simple : An investigation seen as unfairly targeting people because of their beliefs or opinions.

• Critics called the inquiry an inquisition.
• The committee's investigation became a political inquisition.
• Several writers lost their jobs during the ideological inquisition.

Synonymes : witch hunt

Expressions courantes : political inquisition, ideological inquisition, inquisition against someone

enquête, investigation

Enquête menée pour découvrir la vérité sur une affaire.

En anglais simple : An investigation carried out to find the truth about something.

• An inquisition was ordered.
• The committee conducted an inquisition into the dispute.
• Its records describe an official inquisition into the ownership of the land.

Comment l'utiliser : inquisition into something (The council ordered an inquisition into the missing funds.)

Synonymes : investigation, inquiry

Expressions courantes : official inquisition, conduct an inquisition, inquisition into something

enquête judiciaire

Enquête judiciaire officielle, souvent sur un décès, ou document présentant ses conclusions.

En anglais simple : An official legal inquiry, often into a death, or the written finding of that inquiry.

• The coroner held an inquisition.
• The jury's inquisition recorded an accidental death.
• A copy of the inquisition was filed with the court.

Synonymes : inquest

Expressions courantes : coroner's inquisition, jury's inquisition, hold an inquisition