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
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by L. A. Selby-Bigge
He was the arch-atheist, the materialist, the subverter of all that was held most dear by the reigning powers.
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
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 Edna Henry Lee Turpin
None, that is, until the riding-hour came, and Nikky, subverter of all discipline.
From Long Live the King! by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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