Associations to the word «Hearsay»
Noun
- Testimony
- Evidence
- Rumor
- Witness
- Confrontation
- Statement
- Exception
- Admission
- Gossip
- Assertion
- Clause
- Neal
- Rule
- Proceeding
- Court
- Truth
- Knowledge
- Fact
- Appeal
- Report
- Account
- Basis
- Juror
- Justice
- Claim
- Definition
- Informant
- Defendant
- Eyewitness
- Reliability
- Matter
- Rumour
- Law
- Rules
- Nothing
- Claimant
- Trier
- Hepburn
- Person
- Credibility
- Inference
- Indictment
- Jury
- Prosecution
- Exemption
- Allegation
- Legend
- Confession
- Malice
- Ruling
- Hearing
- Aspen
- Costello
- Deception
- Accused
- Anecdote
- Tale
- Prosecutor
- Examination
- Oath
- Heresy
- Warrant
Adjective
Wiktionary
HEARSAY, noun. Information that was heard by one person about another
HEARSAY, noun. (legal) evidence based on the reports of others rather than on personal knowledge; normally inadmissible because not made under oath
HEARSAY, noun. (legal) evidence: an out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted; normally inadmissible because not subject to cross-examination, unless the hearsay statement falls under one of the many exceptions
Dictionary definition
HEARSAY, noun. Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.
HEARSAY, adjective. Heard through another rather than directly; "hearsay information".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.