subversive

A subversive, funny new show: HBO’s new Sunday night series Lanterns is the spiritual successor to Watchmen: a superhero show for people who don’t think they like superhero shows.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Charli's new songs find her grappling with whether she can stay true to her pugnacious, subversive roots while enjoying commercial success and personal happiness.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Even though they never worked together, Highsmith, like Hitchcock, was captivated by the subversive and the clandestine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

These movies swung for the fences to prove that all is not yet lost — an idea that, in itself, can feel subversive.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Experience had taught them that in the end the fox always eats the hens, despite the subversive ballads that were traveling from mouth to mouth preaching just the opposite.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

These Super Glue subversives have been derided as publicity-seeking Philistines and hailed as martyrs for a vital cause.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

Some did so in the sincere belief that they were exposing subversives, some to preserve their careers against threatened blacklisting, some to settle scores, some out of a combination of all these motivations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2020

Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the F.B.I. files in this collection monitor writers considered by the government to have been subversives.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2018

Americans worked themselves into a tizzy over the putative threat posed by small numbers of homegrown subversives.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018

"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau