How to use "subversive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "subversive" in popular movie and book plots

  • Senior Officer, and is further forced thereby, to execute extra-judicially, a man whom he is certain has no connection with these subversive postcards.  - Alone in Berlin (film)
  • Her Mother believed herself to be being monitored by the security services as a result of her subversive activities and George has inherited this belief, and becomes obsessed with Lisa Goliard a friend of her mother's with a suspicious claim to be an artist.  - How to Be Both
  • The second volume 'Two Forests', also splits attention between narratives, primarily between a newly christened Mayor of New York City who has a personal subversive plan to take revenge on the city's establishment that nearly cost him his life when the Trees first touched down, and secondly, the sole surivor of the Norway science expedition from the first volume is tasked by the British government to follow up on leads that the mysterious black flowers could be appearing at another Tree landing site.  - Trees (comics)
  • One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko - cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive - has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship.  - Tatiana (novel)
  • Charles attends Winchester school, where he is falsely accused of possessing a subversive print of Charles I and becomes jealous of the most popular boy, Lionel Clifford.  - Mandeville (novel)
  • At headquarters, his team is given a new assignment: to locate the mysterious subversive El Hassan so the Reunited Nations can back him as a figure under which North Africans can unite.  - Black Man's Burden
  • In Los Angeles, Daniel "Day" Altan Wing, a rebellious 15-year-old deemed as the most-wanted criminal in the country for having escaped the labor camps and done subversive actions, stages a failed attempt to steal a medicine from the Central Hospital for his younger brother, Eden Baatar, who is infected by a plague (released by the government to create biological weapons) that has caused their neighborhood's quarantine.  - Legend (Lu novel)
  • Investigating together, they discover that a disembodied alien force is using high frequency signals to brainwash people - including Drew's brother - into committing subversive acts as a prelude to a full-scale invasion.  - Undermind (TV series)
  • Sundaram (Karan) is one from the town, well educated, but not yet initiated into any subversive acts.  - Thambi Vettothi Sundaram
  • The whole exercise was a war game, put on in secret by the Defense Department to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack.  - The 49th Man
  • has to go to the country as a form of punishment for his subversive tendencies.  - Dreams of Joy
  • Back in Barcelona, the Spanish police interrogate Jaime about some of his subversive friends who are still dreaming of regime change in Spain.  - El cónsul de Sodoma
  • Bob dreams that he goes into a bar and later encounters Louise's nightlight, who alerts him about Gloria's subversive actions (The Tunami).  - Crawl Space (Bob's Burgers)
  • He becomes an enemy of the traditional Puritan faction in the town for his liberal attitude and subversive tendencies.  - Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada
  • Afterwards Stone queries Kyd about the ‘school of night’, an allegedly atheistic and subversive secret society to which Raleigh, Walsingham and Marlowe belonged.  - The School of Night (play)
  • Paul Danton, a member of a subversive political party, who believed in peace so be his answer to make peace was considered.  - The Duplicated Man
  • Soon after, the narrator shares Lola's diary with three male friends, Edgar, Georg, and Kurt; Lola's life becomes an escape for them as they attend college and engage in mildly subversive activities—"harbouring unsuitable German books, humming scraps of banned songs, writing to one another in crude code, taking photographs of the blacked-out buses which carry prisoners between the prison and the construction sites".  - The Land of Green Plums
  • Hooky, enraged, goes to the train station to inspect them for subversive activities, where he witnesses the poor conditions the displaced persons are in.  - The Red Danube
  • Sebastian and the queen talk, and the queen discovers that Sebastian once wrote a subversive poem that she liked, even though it was attacking her.  - The Mystery of Oberwald
  • Noted scientists confess to subversive activities; some of them exhibit other unusual behaviors, such as suddenly demonstrating hand preference opposite to the one they were known to have.  - V (1983 miniseries)
  • Pursewarden kills himself; Nessim is warned to act to curb his brother Narouz, whose subversive rhetoric has become dangerously extravagant.  - Mountolive
  • Their first meeting takes place in the remote countryside where they exchange subversive ideas before having sex.  - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film)
  • A witness, named Shorn, who is a member of a subversive society, arranges for the body to be disposed of.  - Telek
  • Now he is on his way to the United States to continue his subversive activities.  - Once Upon a Honeymoon
  • Intent on revealing the subversive group that the message was for, Drum assumes the pilot's identity and flies to Africa himself and crashes in the jungle.  - King of the Congo
  • He learns the truth when two senior members of the Red Flower Society, a subversive anti-government secret organisation, contact him years later, hoping that the emperor will help them in driving the Manchus away.  - The Emperor and His Brother
  • If a mark is required to receive communion, as well as a pledge by individuals to aid Christopher and all of humankind by working toward the New Age, then Christians, Jews and the KDP will avoid taking the mark, and lack the powers, and immortality to continue their subversive behavior against Humankind.  - Acts of God (James BeauSeigneur novel)
  • Now, as news of the act of sabotage at the fish farm spreads through the community, fears grow that subversive elements were behind it and that outside investors will be discouraged.  - Tread Softly in This Place
  • While there Lehrer is interrogated harshly by government authorities and discovers Castulo Cruz is considered a subversive by the military and that he probably has become a desaparecido.  - Verónico Cruz (film)
  • Macdonald has said his goal was for the show to lull its audience into complacency, and become more subversive as time went on.  - A Minute with Stan Hooper
  • Film-maker Flynn has been imprisoned for making the subversive Dahlia Chan films, along with his leading lady Jaruwan.  - Cythera (novel)
  • He has returned to see his old friends, Tom, a contemporary of his, and JJ, an inspirational figure from their youth who, in the time of Kennedy's period in the White House, came to the town and became a sort of subversive guru, challenging the Church and urging the young men of the town to aspire to bigger things.  - Conversations on a Homecoming
  • He accuses Bashir of being a traitor, pointing out his subversive attitude, including his sympathy for renegade Jem'Hadar trying to cure their Ketracel White addiction (""), lifelong dishonesty about his genetic enhancements ("Doctor Bashir, I Presume.  - Inquisition (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • They engaged in violence, extortion and other subversive tactics to grow their operations.  - Shootout at Lokhandwala
  • In The Black Mountain, Marko's nephew is part of a subversive group to gain Montenegro's independence from Yugoslavia.  - The Black Mountain
  • Three of society's outcasts — men named Spain, Plannetta, and Castle — are taken to a compound that serves as the headquarters of a subversive secret society known as the Invisibles.  - The Invisibles (The Outer Limits)
  • Writer/producer, Rudy Rupak, who was an avid skier trying to learn how to snowboard, seized upon this interesting concept to mine it for its subversive comedic value.  - Snowboard Academy
  • This mostly fails, partly due to Bender's subversive actions.  - The Problem with Popplers
  • Gradually Dale becomes indifferent to the bashings and horrors of prison life and develops an alternative, subversive way to exist and express his rage.  - Everynight ... Everynight
  • Their motive is to cripple the British economy and enable subversive forces to insinuate themselves into government.  - High Treason (1951 film)
  • The officials of the PCD (headed by Controller Herbert Skardon (Robert Lang), in turn, try to find proof of Kyle's subversive activities.  - 1990 (TV series)
  • The play is closed down since it is perceived to be too subversive by the authorities.  - Becoming Madame Mao
  • In return for Evey trusting him with her safety, Gordon reveals prohibited materials including subversive paintings, an antique Quran, and homoerotic photographs.  - V for Vendetta (film)
  • One of the main subversive themes in the film is the platoon's repeated attempts or temptations to kill or otherwise rid themselves of their complete liability of a commander.  - How I Won the War
  • He discovers that a subversive action group is intending instead to use Blue Thunder in a military role to quell disorder under the project codename THOR (for "Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response"), and is secretly eliminating political opponents to advance its agenda.  - Blue Thunder
  • Outside crowded cities controlled by a police state, a class of wealthy and powerful "Farmers" exploit a rural prison labor population and hunt down subversive "Travellers" who have broken free of social controls.  - Earthworks (novel)
  • Meanwhile, Pendleton takes Craven to meet his colleague, Harcourt (Ian McNeice), who informs him that Emma was a member of a subversive anti-nuclear group called GAIA.  - Edge of Darkness
  • The first phase of his mission involves placing stickers with subversive slogans all over the Jaimecan towns in the hope of beginning to create the first murmurings of confusion and concern in Sirian society.  - Wasp (novel)
  • Elva is enchanted, and locates the assailant, who is killed after unwillingly surrendering information to Varden magicians about a subversive group based in Surda called the Black Hand, who is plotting to kill Nasuada.  - Eldest
  • The speech rallies the students to a standing ovation, but her subversive diatribe results in her getting a suspension from school.  - Election (1999 film)
  • There is, however, "a certain coherence in the narrative discourse, a neo-realistic approach and a show of responsibility for social and moral aspects going beyond mere metafictional and subversive elements", which distinguish him from a "traditional" postmodern writer.  - The New York Trilogy
  • Seymour sadly concludes that everyone he knows may have a veneer of respectability, but each engages in subversive behavior and that he cannot understand the truth about anyone based upon the conduct they outwardly display.  - American Pastoral
  • He was then alleged by Damaso as a subversive and was unjustly accused of being a heretic.  - Noli Me Tángere (novel)
  • The Bureau, as it is known, was created to investigate and remove subversive influence in the Federation, but also pursues the goal of reunifying humanity under the Federation.  - Escape Velocity Nova
  • This subversive approach was also applied to God (first name Nigel), who makes the occasional appearance, originally played by David Swift, then in series 7 by Timothy West.  - Old Harry's Game
  • The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition, a reaction to the Waldensians, a heresy which started in the 12th century and claimed to advocate an adherence to the Gospel as taught by Jesus and his disciples.  - The Name of the Rose
  • Their newspapers are vaguely subversive with their folksy, enlightened commentary on world affairs; their dinner conversations knowledgeably reference great theories of psychology, politics, and cognitive science.  - The Santaroga Barrier
  • The lack of writing implements results in more subversive behaviour from the Marquis, including a story written in wine on bedsheets and in blood on clothing.  - Quills
  • Consuella wants Zed destroyed immediately; others, led by May and a subversive Eternal named Friend (John Alderton), insist on keeping him alive for further study.  - Zardoz
  • As Chip grows up and begins his career, he is mostly a good citizen, but commits minor subversive acts, such as procuring art materials for another "nonconformist" member who was denied them.  - This Perfect Day
  • Cindercott soon initiates a number of sweeping reforms, instituting radio check-ins every quarter-hour, less focus on street-level crime in favor of "rooting out subversive elements," no non-essential visitors at the station (meaning loved ones), mandatory overtime with base pay, no contact with the media, and ceasing of routine maintenance of officer's personal equipment.  - Top 10 (comics)
  • New York City Police Commissioner Julius Enderby is secretly a member of the Medievalists, a subversive anti-robot group which pines for the 'olden days' where men did not live in the 'caves of steel'.  - The Caves of Steel
  • The most important quality to achieving an "interesting life" is deemed to be a subversive attitude towards the status quo.  - The Diamond Age
  • The Founders have created or genetically modified races to serve them: the Vorta, sly and subversive diplomats, and the Jem’Hadar, their fearless shock troops.  - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • The character is best described as an amalgam of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, who abrogates civil liberties and human rights through positing a conspiracy theory centered on a (presumably) fictitious subversive organization known as "Aramchek".  - Radio Free Albemuth

Example sentences for "subversive" in interesting articles

  • But there will also be very bright people who believe 100% in the system and what it does and will do everything within their power and skills to make it uncrackable and impregnable to these subversive efforts.  - We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006)
  • The spirit of subversive hackery guided everything.  - How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War on Google Plus
  • As the Defense Science Board notes in its report, a “subversive” chip “could destroy the processor and disable the system by simply shunting power to ground, change the processor output to incorrect results for specified inputs, or allow information leakage to the attackers.” A subversive chip would look identical to a normal one.  - World War Three, by Mistake
  • We need subversive reconnaissance /truth intelligence and organized aggressive action like tax boycotts if sanctuary state fed funds are withheld, and most importantly organizing and using the best and brightest psychiatric community in America and around the world to develop strategy to deal with and weaken our MENTALLY ILL PRESIDENT who is off the rails dangerous.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
  • We need subversive reconnaissance /truth intelligence and organized aggressive action like tax boycotts if sanctuary state fed funds are withheld, and most importantly organizing and using the best and brightest psychiatric community in America and around the world to develop strategy to deal with and weaken our MENTALLY ILL PRESIDENT who is off the rails dangerous.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
  • Similarly East German Citizens out of fear they would be arrested for supporting criminal, subversive or terrorist activities, found it necessary to report to the Stasi Police, suspicious emails, phone and face-to-face communications turning ordinary Citizens into informants.  - Wiretapping the Internet
  • There I met Chris Carlsson, PW’s chief instigator, a sly wit of pastiche and a subversive of the best kind.  - How the Internet ruined San Francisco (1999)
  • Kim said Dandong, China, and the surrounding Jilin Province “were natural gathering points for cross-border cellphone communication and for meeting sources.” The cellphones are able to pick up signals from towers in China, said Libby Liu, head of Radio Free Asia, the United States-financed broadcaster, who confirmed their existence and said her organization uses the calls to collect information for broadcasts as well.The effort, in what is perhaps the world’s most closed nation, suggests just how many independent actors are involved in the subversive efforts.  - U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

Meaning of "subversive" in English

  • in opposition to a civil authority or government
  • a radical supporter of political or social revolution

Meaning of "subversive" in Hindi

  • क्रांतिकारी ( Krantikari, kraantikaaree)
  • विध्व‌ंसक ( Vidhvansak, widhwansak)
  • उलट देने वाला ( Ulat dene vala, ulat dene vaalaa, ulat dene wala)
  • नाश करने वाला ( Nash karane vala, naash karane vaalaa, nash karane wala)
  • नाशकर ( Nashakar, naashakar)
  • ध्वंसकारी ( Dhvansakari, dhvansakaaree, dhwansakari)

Synonyms of "subversive"

  • insurgent
  • revolutionist
  • revolutionary
  • subverter
  • seditious

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