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subversive

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Seeking or tending to undermine an established system or authority.

The play's subversive humor questioned the town's rigid traditions.

Dictionary practice example.

A subversive pamphlet challenges the system's central principle that only the regent may decide which public claims can be questioned.