subversive
Example Sentences
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It was only with time that I understood “Wuthering Heights” for its impact on literature — how its existence during the Victorian era was so subversive.
From Los Angeles Times
If this vapid, airless, mindless time-waster had subversive designs of being a satire about the first lady of the United States, there’s not much it would have changed.
From Los Angeles Times
These cultural products “succeed because they feel spontaneous, playful, sometimes a bit subversive,” Lee said.
So after faculty were urged to add land acknowledgments to their syllabi, Mr. Reges had a subversive idea.
Guinean security forces neutralised an armed group in the capital they said had "subversive intentions threatening national security", according to an official statement, a day before the country holds elections.
From Barron's
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