I. adjective
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subversive organizations
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The loyalty oath was intended to protect students from so-called subversive teachers.
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Again, though, the Fundamental Theorem was doing its subversive work behind the scenes.
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But, as Marx saw long ago, free-market capitalism is quintessentially populist and inherently subversive of traditions and rituals.
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I do not wish to suggest that New Historians are involved in some huge subversive critical enterprise duping credulous students.
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I think this is genuinely subversive .
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Most of those words are cynical, humorous and often subversive to the established order.
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Plato wrote that the potentially subversive qualities of music were such that it would not be permitted in the perfect state.
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Reggae was what was called for, some subversive atmosphere in the place.
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This time the language and violence seem only frantic, not genuinely subversive or liberating.
II. noun
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CIA agents infiltrated the group, looking for alleged subversives.
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Pablo Picasso was for a long time regarded as a dangerous subversive .
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the kidnap and torture of a suspected subversive
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If two subversives want to meet and pass unnoticed, then do it in the smartest, most exclusive hotel in Geneva.
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Postimpressionist art was also taboo, especially Pablo Picasso, who was regarded as a dangerous subversive .
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The new openness meant that there was a marked reduction in the arrests of alleged subversives and in the closures of newspapers.
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The twins, at almost eleven, were clowns, especially Shaw, who was beginning a career as the family subversive .
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They became scapegoats for crimes committed and were widely bruited as potential subversives.
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Too many subversives, they said.