Sample Sentences for
subversion
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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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    They're worse than useless; they are, in fact, subversive.  (source)
    subversive = working to gradually destroy an established order
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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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    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
    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.
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    Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.†  (source)
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    Everyone knew you couldn't subvert Imperial Conditioning!†  (source)
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    And to make it worse, your subverting the local hierarchy—†  (source)
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    They'd lied to us and subverted the judicial process.†  (source)
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    This was the same governor who supplied the list of fifty subversives we heard about a few days ago.†  (source)
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    This subverts a mathematical axiom: it takes away a part, yet lets the whole remain.†  (source)
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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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    Nila, however, was well acquainted with certain establishments—pharmacies, as she called them jokingly—where for the equivalent of double my monthly salary a bottle of medicine could be purchased subversively.†  (source)
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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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