subversionin a sentence
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The Chinese activist was imprisoned for encouraging subversion of state power.subversion = gradual destruction
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The dictatorship has been charging human rights activists with subversion.subversion = gradual destruction of established rule
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"He was subversive, though," Will said. "Why? Because he made the priest the bad guy and the ugly guy good?" "That was part of it." (source)subversive = working to undermine existing institutions
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People like Martin Luther King, they said, were just troublemakers and subversives. (source)subversives = people who undermine (gradually destroy) the existing social order
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They're worse than useless; they are, in fact, subversive. (source)subversive = working to gradually destroy an established order
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No subversive literature was ever in her shop, nor our home, nor that hotel room; distribution was done by kids, too young to read. (source)subversive = intended to undermine a government
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"Maybe you could be a subversive governess," Yetta suggested.† (source)subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive effortsstandard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Mother's being a midwife would subvert the Medical Establishment, but in order to be a midwife she needed a phone.† (source)subvert = to gradually destroy or change the purpose of something -- such as a government, institution, or rule
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Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. (source)subversion = gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
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I am subverting the taste buds of Elsa County.† (source)subverting = gradually destroying or changing the purpose of something -- such as a government, institution, or rule
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They'd lied to us and subverted the judicial process.† (source)subverted = gradually destroyed or changed the purpose of something -- such as a government, institution, or rule
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Indeed, officers belonging to Special Branch, an elite British unit that tracks "subversives" and organized crime figures, had helped McDonald's spy on Steel and Morris for years.† (source)subversives = people who work to gradually destroy an established order
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This subverts a mathematical axiom: it takes away a part, yet lets the whole remain.† (source)subverts = gradually destroys or changes the purpose of something -- such as a government, institution, or rule
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By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,' " (here the Director made the sign of the T), "he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself.† (source)
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The verb to screw is so amazingly, subversively apt.† (source)subversively = in a manner that gradually destroys an established order
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The queen of sexual subversiveness, though, must be the late Angela Carter.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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