subversives

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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 of them provided for the roundup and detention of Americans who were on a list of so-called subversives.

From Salon • May 23, 2022

Others said they were former or current members, but even so, it did not make them antigovernment subversives.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2020

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

"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