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

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)

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 denounced by priest and publican as a subverter of morals.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

This Royal Commissioner reported that he was in danger of his life, and that the authorities resolved to prosecute him as a subverter of their government.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.