countersubversive
English
editEtymology
editFrom counter- + subversive.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Adjective
editcountersubversive (not comparable)
- Opposing subversive activities.
Noun
editcountersubversive (plural countersubversives)
- One who opposes subversive activities.
- 2007, Michael S. Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy:
- As countersubversives saw it, queer artists worked hand in hand (literally, it seemed) with political subversives while their decadent art undermined America's cultural offensive. These suspicions went public in 1953 […]