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

Such was the reputation which the vanquished magnates in general, and their followers, endeavored to fix upon the young subverter of their ascendency.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

He was the arch-atheist, the materialist, the subverter of all that was held most dear by the reigning powers.

From The Necessity of Atheism by Brooks, David Marshall

None, that is, until the riding-hour came, and Nikky, subverter of all discipline.

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

As a subverter of public morals, however, the palm belongs, not to Yoshimitsu, but to his immediate successor, Yoshimochi.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)