HERETICAL in a Sentence

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Example sentences for HERETICAL, such as:

1. He said Bruno was a terrible heretic.
2. He was regarded as heretic by the common people.
3. I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
4. At the onset of the Inquisition, the heretical priest was forced to flee the country.
5. The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.

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 Meanings and Examples of HERETICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heretical
 a.  departing from accepted beliefs or standards; oppositional
Classic Sentence:
1  In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  They savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists, views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished sermons.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
3  But there was in all the town no heretic save Carol who omitted angel's-food.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  He said Bruno was a terrible heretic.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
Example Sentence:
1  At the onset of the Inquisition, the heretical priest was forced to flee the country.
2  I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
3  He was regarded as heretic by the common people.
4  The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.