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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
  • They're worse than useless; they are, in fact, subversive.  (source)
    subversive = working to gradually destroy an established order
  • 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 efforts
    standard 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • The verb to screw is so amazingly, subversively apt.†  (source)
    subversively = in a manner that gradually destroys an established order
  • 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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