countersubversive

English

Etymology

counter- + subversive

Adjective

countersubversive (not comparable)

  1. Opposing subversive activities.

Noun

countersubversive (plural countersubversives)

  1. 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 []
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