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
He was denounced by priest and publican as a subverter of morals.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
If you discover new truths you will certainly be called a subverter of old ones.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
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 Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To his revengeful but astute mind it was clear that if he could not be an official he might be the enemy of the Government and its possible subverter.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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