subverter
Example Sentences
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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
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 Selby-Bigge, L. A.
The first minister of the Prussian crown was closeted once—people say more than once, but that does not matter—with the ablest subverter of the modern fabric of society.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Well, I call him something a great deal worse—an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!
From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
