subvert
IPA: sʌbvˈɝt
noun
- An advertisement created by subvertising.
verb
- (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
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Examples of "subvert" in Sentences
- The storm subverts ships easily.
- The article subverts the value of this website.
- You feel that the restrictions themselves subvert the law.
- I'm more of the 'likes to subvert from the inside' kind of guy.
- At what point do the lies subvert the morale of the whole project
- Truth and good definitions are subverted in favor of appeasing you.
- This is a clear attempt to subvert the concept of the British Isles.
- Please do not try to subvert the intent and the principle of policy.
- Mao sought to subvert the alliance of imperialism and feudalism in China.
- The notwithstanding clause seems to subvert the whole idea of a guarantee.
- FISA restricted the ability of investigators to subvert the Bill of Rights.
- ADDED: Andrew Sullivan endorses voting for Sanjaya on the vote for the worst concept because he wants to "subvert" the "far too self-important show."
- The idea that transgender identities and expression subvert the gender binary did much to increase transgender-inclusion within feminist and queer spaces.
- My use of modal notions in triadology cannot be said to "subvert" a doctrine whose relevant sense, never mind whose normativity, hasn't even been established.
- And if indeed it is a consequence of the teaching thus denominated that necessity is not "predicable of God ad intra," then I can indeed be said to "subvert" that teaching too.
- It is possible that leaderless 5GW will included meme-driven individuals infiltrating cultural institutions with the intent to long-term subvert them and redirect them to opposite goals.
- To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world.
- By the first, Drucker seems to mean the incorporation of images, motifs, and sensibilities from mass culture only to "subvert" these references by using them to implicitly critique the insipidity of mass culture.
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