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• n  destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
  the big city's subversion of rural innocence
• n  the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government

• Their professed aim is nothing less than the subversion of Western society by "flower power" and force of example.
• Come July, the emergency declared twelve years ago to combat Communist subversion and terror will officially end.
• As a result, even today nobody knows exactly how many people disappeared during the "dirty war" against subversion (1976-83), nor the number of victims in the left-wing guerrilla .

• corruption
• subversive activity

News & Articles

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• ‘Bodies of Subversion’ Explores Women’s Tattoos
  In a revision of “Bodies of Subversion,” Margot Mifflin updates the history of women and tattoos.
  July 3, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Richard Hofstadter in Atlanta Journal Constitution
  But the modern right wing : feels dispossessed,Hofstadter wrote. "America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. The...