How to Use heretical in a Sentence
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This may sound heretical, but choose the crisp Brussels sprouts over the thin fries.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
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Hell, even when those species are biting, trash fish make for a nice heretical change of pace and some good lowbrow fun.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2019
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Doak’s conclusion would have seemed heretical just a few years ago.
—Hillary Rosner, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
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To Americans, who log 7 to 19% more time on the job than our European peers, that may sound heretical.
—Bryce Covert, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
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If you're porked out, try Frances's heretical but delicious choice — sliced turkey, hot off the pit.
—Frances Bailey, Country Living, 7 July 2014
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But in 2020, Gastón started having the kind of heretical thoughts that would have made his ancestors blush.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2024
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As a young man, he had been expelled from the city’s Jewish community for his heretical views on God and the Bible.
—Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
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In the British scientist’s own day, church leaders would have viewed many of his ideas on these subjects as heretical.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
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If this is a heretical project, well, my subject is familiar with heresy.
—Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
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But this heretical thought keeps intruding: Is there such a thing as too much Sondheim?
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
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There’s more than a hint of the Ogdoad in these two, a sacramental yet heretical consciousness.
—Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
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Laurence, Jeff and Allyson had a shared goal: to feed their people until 1 a.m., heretical at the time for sleepy San Francisco.
—Rachel Levin, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2021
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Sight has become a heretical concept; even a TV critic could get his throat slit just for joking about it.
—Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
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There’s also the heretical thought that even PSG may benefit from some time without its star.
—Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 1 Mar. 2018
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In the era of hustle culture, arguing for a standard work week of less than 40 hours a week feels almost heretical.
—Jenny Singer, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2021
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The first stratagem of the racist is not to quote Adolph Hitler, or George Wallace, or bad science, or heretical religion.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 16 Jan. 2022
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The Cedros Island sites add to a small but growing list that supports a once-heretical view of the peopling of the Americas.
—Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 10 Aug. 2017
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To speak of trees as social beings remains, in some quarters, heretical.
—Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
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If the music were more somber, people would realize the images are disturbing and the song heretical. . . .
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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Ball was sympathetic to the Lollards, a Christian sect deemed heretical by Rome.
—Susan Wade, The Conversation, 5 June 2020
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According to the Bible, astrology is also heretical, which makes the idea of reading into the meaning of the stars a bit suspect in the first place.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2020
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Ryan knows as well as anyone why that is borderline heretical for coaches to believe.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
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The oral and dental medicine specialist belongs to the Shiite sect of Islam — viewed by many hard-line Sunni Muslims as heretical.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
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The village was in the crosshairs of the Inquisition, seeking to crush a Gnostic splinter group known as the Cathars, whose beliefs were branded heretical by the Vatican.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
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But a lot of the conspiracies about heretical cover-ups are fairly modern.
—National Geographic, 12 May 2016
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The notion of watching horror movies on Christmas seems downright heretical.
—Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2022
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Such changes might sound heretical to those who grew up at a time when the theater was almost sacrosanct — a place to get lost in the latest cinematic adventure.
—Brian Raftery, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
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In another heretical post, Lee deep fries a whole fresh black truffle after submerging it in an egg wash and breading it with Shake ‘N Bake.
—Adam Reiner, Bon Appétit, 6 Jan. 2024
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In the years surrounding the Bakke case, Bell published two articles that were considered both brilliant and heretical.
—Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
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What Osiander and others found heretical was the very notion of a heliocentric universe.
—Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
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