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Meanings of subversive in English

Portuguese
revolucionários
Catalan
revolucionari
Wikidata

A radical supporter of political or social revolution.

        revolucionários

        In opposition to a civil authority or government.

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              Usage of subversive in English
              1
              Their work is connected by questions of change, memory and subversive individuality.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Actually, I have often been the one doing the subversive conflict thing.
              Unleashing the power of rubber bands: lessons in non-linear lead...
              3
              Stock Question Three would be: Do you belong to any subversive organization?
              Dayworld Rebel
              4
              Crowd-pleasing musicals could take on a subversive frisson with the new approach.
              The Guardian
              5
              The insistence of the celebrated subversive journalist rankled in his mind strangely.
              Under Western Eyes
              6
              Walk among the eerie machines and mannequins of this subversive director's work.
              The Guardian
              7
              In fact, I hadn't even known that such a subversive group existed.
              Dayworld Rebel
              8
              The army, gathered in Cádiz, was very soon undermined by subversive ideas.
              Simón Bolívar (The Liberator) / Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Fat...
              9
              Now he's back with Paper Music, a witty, gently subversive cine-concert evening.
              The South African
              10
              Throughout its nearly 100 pages, the book rarely ceases to be subversive.
              Reuters
              11
              And yet the book is subversive as well as funny and comforting.
              The Guardian
              12
              There was something subversive and undermining and unnerving in its very atmosphere.
              Phantom Wires: A Novel
              13
              It was subversive and gritty, a poetry-kaleidoscope trip into the for-profit future.
              Wired
              14
              The lines became a kind of literary ear-worm: subtle, rich and subversive.
              The Guardian
              15
              He watched and recorded their subversive activities with love, amusement, and detachment.
              The Sirens of Titan
              16
              Puritanism was therefore threatening to become directly subversive of the established order.
              England under the Tudors
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              Subversive across language varieties
              Ireland
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              United States of America
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              United Kingdom
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