SUBVERSIVE in a Sentence

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1. This courageous and subversive movie has attracted widespread critical support.
2. All that the bourgeois have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive couplets.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBVERSIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
subversive
 a.  tending to overthrow; in opposition to civil authority or government
Classic Sentence:
1  In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
2  All that the bourgeois have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive couplets.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
3  For a long time there had been rumours--circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy--that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
Example Sentence:
1  In the meantime, Nigerian security agencies have been investigating what they call subversive activities by some foreign correspondents.
2  At the end of July, Michael Ellsberg posted something truly subversive on Facebook. It wasn't a scantily clad photograph of himself.
3  This courageous and subversive movie has attracted widespread critical support.