defiler

Example Sentences

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He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Therefore he was defiled and a defiler of others.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Ah, defiler of the altar! lie not there!

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret

These extremes of the chromatic scale are each in its way most easily denied, as green, the mean of the scale, is the greatest defiler of all colours.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Caching his boat and supplies on spruce saplings, he circled each peeled trunk with a necklace of large inverted fish-hooks, to foil the raids of that arch thief and defiler of caches, the wolverine.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.