Subversion (Noun)
Meaning 1
The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
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- This is too bad is simply the subversion by those which the once young innocent children begin taken trust being broken, lost or in question, and never regained after being corrupted.
- The use of power over coercion allows subversion of people through the development of a culture of fear in addition further support through additional resourceful assistance in providing more of whatever by means of manipulative tactics.
- Unfortunately or in this bad case the parents allowed the subversion of their values by not really doing anything in response after hearing several extremely upsetting accounts of things concerning those issues repeatedly experienced observed.
- Subversion by suggestion through clever wording often plays a role and in providing of special circumstances created as an entitlement to those that would normally never be entitled to if simply not having been specifically placed rather than by going through more in standard procedures.