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heretical

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That may not sound radical to today’s feminists, but in the field of evolutionary biology, such a pronouncement has long bordered on the heretical.

Some recruiters told would-be recruits that the state leaders had to be confronted because the state’s loyalty oath contained heretical ideas.

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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.

This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don't think much good would come of it.

Either way, the FSA-ISIS feud got worse after the McCain visit with the Northern Storm, which ISIS viewed as a heretical act.

Son of God is so awful that it borders on godless—not sinful or heretical, just lacking true Spirit.

He makes heretical suggestions about calling a “truce” in the culture wars.

Conservatives have written the whole thing off as the heretical pursuit of the Bush administration.

In the meantime the university had taken steps to ensure the suppression of heretical books.

The Sorbonne declared, in the sixteenth century, that it was heretical to say that heretics ought not to be burned.

Thus these various national churches, all called heretical by both Greeks and Latins, continued to exist under Turkish rule.

Galling though the Irish laws were, they never went so far as to make the mere holding of heretical opinions criminal.

Massachusetts had not yet renounced her designs upon the territories of the heretical Colony.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heretical, such as: agnostic, apostate, atheistic, differing, disagreeing, and dissenting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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