(n.) Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Example Sentences:
(1) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(2) Wang admitted basing his report “on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”, Xinhua added.
(3) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
(4) Hearsay and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
(5) "It turns out Mr Lewis's account contradicts the hearsay evidence attributed to Det Sgt Maberly.
(6) Questionnaires regarding experience, hearsay, and perceptions of anxiety toward eight dental treatments were distributed to a general patient population.
(7) On the role of the Boston College-Belfast Project tapes, he says: "The allegation of conspiracy in the killing of Mrs McConville is based almost exclusively on hearsay from unnamed alleged Boston College interviewees but mainly from the late Dolours Price [an IRA Old Bailey bomber] and Brendan Hughes [a Belfast IRA commanding officer].
(8) But a senior western diplomat dismissed this as hearsay, arguing that the Sudanese government's desire to strengthen ties with Cairo made them unlikely to side against Egypt on Libya .
(9) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(10) The reason, again according to hearsay, was that he dozed off during one of Kim’s speeches.
(11) He said: "In the report, statements are made and inferences drawn on condition of anonymity and hearsay.
(12) Stuart-Smith concluded there was no cover-up, because the changes mostly involved removing comment and hearsay, although he did criticise some deletions of fact.
(13) But the home secretary cannot intervene on the basis of suspicion, rumour or hearsay.” May said the home affairs committee was also told that the concerns raised in April were confidential and they were treated as such.
(14) If one was to disavow common sense, history, evidence and truth, and, instead, rely purely on hysteria and hearsay created out of conjecture, then perhaps superficial appearances do conclusively prove Obama is a Muslim.
(15) There is reason to think, however, that all his evidence is hearsay, and that he himself never witnessed an act of cannibalism.
(16) We knew there were technical challenges but it was all hearsay.
(17) Does stating facts based on several independent levels of input and not on a few bits of non-expert hearsay endanger the reef-based tourism industry?
(18) But in a 11,750-word statement published on the Nike Oregon Project website he finally tackled the allegations which he said had left “innocent athletes’ careers tarnished with nothing but innuendo, hearsay and rumour”.
(19) It truly goes without saying.” He added : ... even if substituting a ministerial opinion based on untested hearsay and intelligence for the verdict of a jury were within the powers of parliament, should we do so as a matter of tradition and decency?
(20) The statements made in the letter regarding arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances completely distorted the situation on the ground, and constitute generalisations based on hearsay and intentional distortions by those striving to regain a foothold in Egypt after being rejected by the people.
Heresy
Definition:
(n.) An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.
(n.) Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.
(n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
(2) At which point – obviously – you reach the stubborn limits of the debate: from even the most supposedly imaginative Labour people as much as any Tories, such heresies would presumably be greeted with sneering derision.
(3) Was this, in fact, a persecuted truth, and our own way of life the heresy?
(4) But such an idea is not part of "sex education" and remains a heresy for those of faith, though the secular belief in this idea too is fairly devout.
(5) They are engaged in a collective act of over-compensation, frantically mouthing the prayers of the new religion now that the old one has been banished as heresy.
(6) But support for Farc, and playing footsie with President Fidel Castro, verges on utter heresy.
(7) He even continued to believe in the ultimate heresy – that incomes policy could be an effective non-monetarist means of controlling inflation.
(8) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(9) Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest courtesy of the Vatican's inquisition for his heresy in insisting the Earth revolved around the sun.
(10) What’s much more questionable is the way the same vengeful attitude is extended to anyone who ever portrayed the last two years of Labour politics in terms of doubt, concern and malaise, and who are being similarly instructed to say sorry for their alleged heresy or be escorted from the building.
(11) To extremists, Timbuktu’s ancient form of Islam - in which superstition and magic cohabit with the teachings of the Qur’an - is heresy.
(12) About 50 other people carried posters reading "Heresy arises from words wrongly used" and "Allah is only for us".
(13) Yet insofar as science and the professions demand a conformity to basic concepts of ideology and practice, certain types of dissent may best be described as heresy.
(14) It will be argued that freedom of movement is a holy principle and that what we are suggesting is heresy,” he said.
(15) To call JP Morgan a glorified utility is something of a heresy in financial circles.
(16) It had even led him to consider what for most Irish football fans is the ultimate heresy.
(17) Whereas any contemplation suggesting routinization in a plastic surgery endeavor may engender abhorrence or bespeak heresy, some generalizations are essential at least as a foundation from which a logical divergence may proceed.
(18) Meanwhile, our French-speaking cousins in Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal and Mali would see the use of okra or nuts as heresy.
(19) The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy.
(20) In this paper, heretical movements are discussed, and heresy is defined [8.