subversive

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 puts you in your place and, whether you realize it or not, it’s a subversive way of controlling the outcome and discouraging you from using your voice.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

Although the logo is meant to be subversive and ironic, Tampa fans took it as a cue and started to chant “USA! USA!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

In 2004, a statue named The Drinker - a subversive take on Rodin's The Thinker - was installed on Shaftesbury Avenue, central London, before being stolen soon afterwards.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

In June of 1952, McCarran teamed with a new assistant attorney general — the driven, young, slightly built, and prematurely balding Roy Cohn — to look into suspected subversives at the U.N.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023

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

Your father’s high school coach, who believed the forward pass was invented by hippie subversives, may have approved of the punts, but all three were mistakes, according to the EdjSports model.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

"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