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 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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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 Boulger, Demetrius Charles