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

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)

This Royal Commissioner reported that he was in danger of his life, and that the authorities resolved to prosecute him as a subverter of their government.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

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

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)