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
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As a subverter of public morals, however, the palm belongs, not to Yoshimitsu, but to his immediate successor, Yoshimochi.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
He was denounced by priest and publican as a subverter of morals.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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
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