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Six example sentences with subversive, each labelled with its topic.
The mural looked decorative until you noticed the subversive detail: every official in the parade wore a clown's shoes.
Art
Banned for a decade, the subversive little novel mocked the ministry so precisely that officials could name themselves in it.
Literature
Folk singers slipped subversive verses past the censors by burying complaints about the governor inside cheerful harvest tunes.
Music
The pamphlet was branded subversive by the ministry, though it asked only why the bridge tolls had doubled.
Politics
The comedy was quietly subversive, letting the film's humble clerks outwit every general and minister in the plot.
Movies
Censors listed the almanac as subversive in 1790 because its calendar dropped the names of the saints.
History
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