All 15 Uses
subversion
in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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- My one grandfather was shipped up from Joburg for armed violence and no work permit, other got transported for subversive activity after Wet Firecracker War.†
Chpt 1subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
- He was a political exile like Warden, but a subversive and instead of fat job like "warden," Professor had been dumped, to live or starve.†
Chpt 2
- And could be trusted; not only had we shared trouble but she was a subversive.†
Chpt 3
- I recognized several, not as fake subversives but as acquaintances.†
Chpt 7subversives = people who work to gradually destroy an established order
- He was tagged as a subversive—that was why he had been sent to The Rock—as a member of underground group in Luna City.†
Chpt 7subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
- But likeliest theory is that Warden's reports on "subversive activities" caused Authority Earthside to order a cleanup.†
Chpt 9
- Wyoh recruited Sidris; Sidris started own cell by recruiting her other assistant and Bon Ton Beaute Shoppe became hotbed of subversion.†
Chpt 10subversion = gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- As numbers increased we shifted to high speed on agitprop, black-propaganda rumors, open subversion, provocateur activities, and sabotage.†
Chpt 10
- No subversive literature was ever in her shop, nor our home, nor that hotel room; distribution was done by kids, too young to read.
Chpt 10 *subversive = intended to undermine a government
- Nor did she know why parents had been shipped—possibly for subversion if they were both under sentence as Hazel thought.†
Chpt 10subversion = gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- For example: Let's say a little one, too young to read, is caught with a stack of subversive literature—which happened more than once.†
Chpt 10subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
- Simon's" verse was doggerel, bawdy, subversive, ranging from poking fun at vips to savage attacks on Warden, system, Peace Dragoons, finks.†
Chpt 10
- Language was simple, rhyme scheme unforced, only thing faintly subversive was conclusion on part of dying man that even many wardens he has endured was not too high a price.†
Chpt 10
- Mike solved most of Warden's code sooner than he had projected; Warden was sending more traffic than in past and most of it one subject (which helped)—subject being security and subversion.†
Chpt 12subversion = gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- He reported subversive activities still going on despite two phalanges of Peace Dragoons and demanded enough troops to station guards in all key spots inside all warrens.†
Chpt 12subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
Definitions:
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(1)
(subversion) gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)