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
Ja-don was painted to them as a defiler of temples, and the wrath of Jad-ben-Otho was prophesied for those who embraced his cause.
From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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 Anthony Collins
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 George P. Marsh
