Example sentences for: subversive

How can you use “subversive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A government order excused most of the sect's adherents as victims who didn't know they were joining a subversive political organization.

  • Would I welcome The Truman Show for what it is--a sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum--if I hadn't been bludgeoned by pre-emptive raves in Esquire , Time , Entertainment Weekly , and the New York Times that proclaim it some sort of subversive postmodern masterwork?

  • But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).

  • Live music is quite common, with jazz, suppressed as subversive in the Stalinist era, currently enjoying something of a renaissance in Budapest nightspots.

  • To squash subversive ideas about independence in Puerto Rico, Madrid imposed ruthless military control.


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