Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.
Subversive and destructive are semantically related In some cases you can use "Subversive" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Subversive
Subversive adjective - In opposition to a civil authority or government.
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Synonyms for Subversive
Destructive and subversive are semantically related in seditious topic. You can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Subversive".
Nearby Word: subversion
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- baleful and destructive
- baleful and subversive
- baneful and destructive
- baneful and subversive
- evil and destructive
- evil and subversive
- bad and destructive
- bad and subversive
- noxious and destructive
- noxious and subversive
- unwholesome and destructive
- unwholesome and subversive
- disastrous and destructive
- disastrous and subversive
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- The German cabaret act Die Nachrichter (banned by Those Wacky Nazis in 1935 as "subversive and destructive") sang Die Ballade von Heinrich dem Achten ("The Ballad of Henry VIII") as a parody murder ballad, mentioning that Henry "holds the amateur record in legitimate conjugal murder".
Source: Murder Ballad -
At the same time, he is driven by vengeance, murderous, sadistic, subversive, and wantonly destructive.
Source: Byronic Hero
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