subverter

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Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order.

From Time Magazine Archive

None, that is, until the riding-hour came, and Nikky, subverter of all discipline.

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

“I see a thousand builders unequal to one subverter; what then of the one builder who is followed by a thousand subverters?”

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse....

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

Such was the reputation which the vanquished magnates in general, and their followers, endeavored to fix upon the young subverter of their ascendency.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various