defiler

Example Sentences

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Therefore he was defiled and a defiler of others.

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

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

From "1984" by George Orwell

He was panting now with fiery indignation; a holy zeal inflamed this profligate defiler.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Sabatini, Rafael

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.

Between 1710 and 1729 Anthony Collins was lampooned, satirized, and gravely denounced from pulpit and press as England’s most insidious defiler of church and state.

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony