subverter

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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

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

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse....

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

Iolas fell, whom not the Grecian pow'rs, Nor great subverter of the Trojan tow'rs, Were doom'd to kill, while Heav'n prolong'd his date; But who can pass the bounds, prefix'd by fate?

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

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)