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
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
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
But if any of them showed any mildness, or seemed a favourer of truth, against him, as the subverter of Britain, were all their malice and their weapons bent.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
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
