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

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

It alleges French support for "subversive networks and an intent to marginalise" Burkina Faso on the international stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

She recognized a kindred spirit, a similar subversive spark to the one she often felt flaring inside her.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

In the authorities’ war against perceived subversives, it would be years before it became clear how brazenly they had cheated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

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

As Louis frames it, family is the template for, and the creature of, the state, with its brutal leadership, its sycophantic enablers, its goons and its subversives.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2022

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