(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.
Jezebel
Definition:
(n.) A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jezebel reports Vaxx has already screened on a recent cruise for conspiracy theorists that journalists were not allowed to attend.
(2) On the Jezebel celebrity website , Lindsay wrote: "We learned about Whoopi's strange and fascinating moral universe, which includes the concept of "rape-rape."
(3) In 2013, Jezebel attributed an enormous jump in traffic to Return of Kings to viral outrage over its post “5 Reasons To Date a Girl With an Eating Disorder”.
(4) Editorial note: the author wrote freelance or under contract for Gawker Media on its properties Wonkette, Jezebel, Jalopnik and io9 at various points from 2006 through 2010.
(5) Gawker and its other sites – Gizmodo, Jezebel and so on – are an important part of that landscape.
(6) But beyond all the brouhaha about the cost of the contents of her makeup bag, which Jezebel totted up to a whopping $1,977.75 (around £1,290), the most interesting revelation (and the only free tip) is that Kardashian only washes her hair every five days.
(7) If you Google “Lindy West” and “Roosh”, the first eight results are from Roosh’s various websites: “Lindy West Brags About Getting an Abortion”, “Lindy West Leaving Jezebel, Still a Whale”, “Fat Feminist Lindy West Goes Berserk Because She No Longer Fits in Airplane Seats”, “The 9 Ugliest Feminists in America” (I’m #1!
(8) The intention may be to demonstrate to the unaware how ubiquitous white privilege is, but as Kara Brown wrote at Jezebel on Wednesday afternoon , “intention is not the same as impact”.
(9) This year Jezebel also revealed a secretive group which recruits vulnerable women operating in the heart of New York City.
(10) Both cynical outsider and consummate insider, it’s the perfect place for the boss of a company that started as a gossip blog and now runs several well-known spin-offs, from Gizmodo to feminist site Jezebel.
(11) June 10, 2016 Gawker, which also owns Jezebel and Gizmodo, will be put up for auction with bidding starting at about $100m following interest from digital publisher Ziff Davis LLC.
(12) The feminist blog Jezebel called the cover "hideous", with writer Tracie Egan Morrissey noting: "For a book all about a woman's clinical depression that's exacerbated by the suffocating gender stereotypes of which she's expected to adhere and the limited life choices she has as a woman, it's pretty … stupid to feature a low-rent retro wannabe pinup applying makeup."
(13) The message board got so full that the New York Times has now closed it (the discussion continues on sites such as Jezebel and Salon).
(14) The other Gawker Media publications, including Jezebel (women’s issues), Gizmodo (tech), io9 (science fiction, fantasy and science), Kotaku (gaming), Deadspin (sports), Jalopnik (all things automotive) and Lifehacker, are expected to continue publication after Univision’s acquisition of the company .
(15) Although his blogs and columns at Jezebel, the Atlantic and even (occasionally) Comment is free had their admirers, his troubled personal history made him, to many others, an entirely inappropriate spokesman for feminism.
(16) Jezebel interviews a couple of doctors then concludes that we should stop panicking before Douglas "becomes the poster child for idiot teenage boys and abstinence-only advocates who already think vaginas are super icky".
(17) Williams joined the show two years after the website Jezebel created a firestorm when it pointed out how few female writers and other staff worked at The Daily Show.
(18) It strikes me that telling a woman exactly what she should do with her vaginal bush is about as contrary to the spirit of feminism as bidding for pictures of Lena Dunham's un-Photoshopped body ( hello, feminist website Jezebel ).
(19) If you have registered with Gawker.com, Fleshbot, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Gawker.tv, Valleywag, or Cityfile at any point in the last seven years there's a chance your email address and password have been exposed.