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subversives

/suhb-vur-siv/US // səbˈvɜr sɪv //UK // (səbˈvɜːsɪv) //

颠覆者,颠覆分子,颠覆份子,颠覆人士

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also sub·ver·sion·ar·y [suhb-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-]. /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/. tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who adopts subversive principles or policies.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Examples

  • The TV veteran — who as someone who worked on Fox’s “Married … With Children” is familiar with subversive TV comedy — said he understands the motivation for bringing on someone like Musk.

  • In an era when audiences have seen the Wicked Witch of the West transformed into an animal rights activist and Harley Quinn depicted as a sympathetic anti-hero, not every villain needs to be recast as a misunderstood subversive.

  • His impersonation saw him charged as a subversive, and he had to be rescued by the American vice consul.

  • At the same time, I was learning about science and reading subversive people like Bertrand Russell.

  • There are fights, resistance, and subversive behaviors, but through all that, there is a broad commonality.

  • Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.

  • Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.

  • Of course, you can read this just as a brilliant, subversive coda to a horror movie.

  • Hipgnosis were at their most subversive when taking photos of the band.

  • These subversive narratives were not the solution I sought to the dissonance between my expected and actual college experience.

  • The worthy man is too loyal to the set rules of his acknowledged leaders, to harbour a notion so subversive and dangerous.

  • His lofty realism was subversive of popular superstitions, when logically carried out.

  • It gives assurance, at least, that no particularly wild schemes or subversive changes shall be made.

  • No question was decided in the academy without the opinion of Aristotle, though it was often subversive of that of Plato.

  • After all, lefthandedness was impious in religion, subversive to discipline in military affairs and unlisted in business.