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

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 Brinkley, F. (Frank)

“I see a thousand builders unequal to one subverter; what then of the one builder who is followed by a thousand subverters?”

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

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

At the moment when thy dearest hopes had budded afresh, when the clouds of insecurity and disquiet had retired from thy vision, wast thou assailed by the great subverter of human schemes.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden