countersubversive

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English

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Etymology

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From counter- +‎ subversive.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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countersubversive (not comparable)

  1. Opposing subversive activities.

Noun

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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 []