subversive

[ US /səbˈvɝsɪv/ ]
[ UK /səbvˈɜːsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. in opposition to a civil authority or government
NOUN
  1. a radical supporter of political or social revolution
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How To Use subversive In A Sentence

  • The whole lecture has a morally subversive ring, and the savour of antinomianism about it.
  • Agents regularly rounded up suspected subversives.
  • Can rock ever again generate the poorly-constructed yet subversive caterwaul for which I once fell in love with it?
  • But it still says something subversive. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had an extensive collection of heretical materials, and was housing a subversive.
  • He's something more subversive, less recognisable and far more interesting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not least, it is subversive of the intellectual foundation of liberal democratic society. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
  • This courageous and subversive movie has attracted widespread critical support.
  • The conflict lies in the fact that this second pole has for centuries been condemned as negative, subversive.
  • They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud.
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