Example sentences for: subversive

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

  • 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).

  • Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.

  • The explicit adoption of such a strategy, subversive as it may seem of both the democratic process and deficit reduction, may strike Republicans as irresponsible.

  • To present-day eyes, expressions of extreme female modesty seem subversive, a stumbling block to the sane ordering of human affairs.

  • The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage admits the existence of an alternative but dismisses it as a subversive plot: “ Media —still a plural, despite persistent efforts to turn it into a singular.”


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