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

Nimbly, it manages to be both a pacifist film and a subversive one with no faith in the system as it stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Years before “Barbie” stormed movie houses, Elle was the subversive answer to whether a woman’s love of makeup, pastel colors, skirts and heels negated her feminism.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

My loyalty to Mr. Smeath is similar to my loyalty to my brother both are on the side of ox eyeballs, toe jam under the microscope, the outrageous, the subversive.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

"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