heresy

Purists will say that to throw cooked vegetables into the mix amounts to heresy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

His brother confirmed in an interview with the city’s local station WGN-TV that he is a White Sox fan, refuting early heresy claiming he roots for the Cubs, aka Satan’s Stickballers.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

That, of course, was heresy, since Namath played for the AFL’s New York Jets and the big boys from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts, led by Johnny Unitas, were 19-point favorites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

But his suggestion that animals think and feel was seen as scientific heresy among many, if not most animal behaviour experts.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2024

From the Inquisition’s point of view, the problem was that to bring a false charge of heresy was as serious a crime as heresy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

You’ll need more heresies than that to oust an incumbent in a primary.

From Slate ● May 24, 2022

He was equally interested in imposing Christian uniformity through the elimination of Christian heresies like Arianism.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”

From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017

And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton