offensive to pious ears
Meanings
adj
- Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
Word forms
Etymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.
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