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

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

The impulse to crush the defiler was checked by the sudden appearance of two men inside the curtains.

From Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr

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