heretical

Example Sentences

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The idea of the Treasury borrowing hundreds of billions — or trillions — of dollars by selling long-term securities and in effect betting that interest rates will rise is heretical.

From Washington Post

Like Woolf, she is preoccupied with depicting the texture of thought and memory — their ambushes and heretical swerves.

From New York Times

Capitol are “heretical” and a “perversion of the Christian faith.”

From Washington Post

In such conditions it might have been understandable if a fatalistic fit of meteorological defiance prompted a perhaps heretical instruction: Let it snow.

From Washington Post

So the disdain DeTrinis — a native New Yorker, no less! — professes for the Big Apple and all who yearn to live there has a transgressive, heretical audacity.

From Los Angeles Times