subversive

Example Sentences

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I think “Animal House” was also subtly subversive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Her Guardian colleague Rhik Samadder enjoys the "subversive" nature of The Muppets however, and the show-within-a-show.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

So after faculty were urged to add land acknowledgments to their syllabi, Mr. Reges had a subversive idea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

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 • Dec. 28, 2025

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