subversive

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a radical supporter of political or social revolution
  • Adjective:
    in opposition to a civil authority or government

Word Origin

subversive (adj.)
1640s, from Latin subvers-, past participle stem of subvertere (see subvert) + -ive. As a noun, attested from 1887. Related: Subversively; subversiveness.

Example

1. And , of course , my e-mail provoked some rather more subversive thoughts .
2. For the first modernists , the erotic was self-evidently subversive .
3. Don 't disregard our traditions just because you 're subversive .
4. Sillier still , a group of ex-soldiers marched on her house and shook their buttocks at it , calling her a subversive .
5. What deng wrote was actually quite subversive yet the article did not make much splash .

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