[ UK /hɪɹˈɛtɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /hɝˈɛtɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
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How To Use heretical In A Sentence

  • Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
  • Peckinpah was a heretical filmmaker.
  • As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
  • He had an extensive collection of heretical materials, and was housing a subversive.
  • These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous.
  • Thus, the schismatic group was not necessarily heretical.
  • I made brief mention recently of the heretical view that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS.
  • Contempt and derision were now poured not upon the heretical supporters of change, but upon their orthodox opponents.
  • He wondered whether his brother could have made it flying in such a formation, then quickly dismissed such heretical thoughts from his mind. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
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