nation wrecker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A malicious agent or other influence that destabilizes or destroys a nation or civilization.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "On the one side I see the builders of this country on foundations tried and true. On the other side are those engaged in the cheerful exercise of tearing down. I put the question to you: Are you going to be a nation-builder or a nation-wrecker?"
- "The nation-wrecker Olympius was a fanatic "Catholic", as the followers of the dictatorial Church of Rome were called--one of his actions had been to dismiss all non-catholics from all services of the state"
- "The years 1949-55 thus gradually revealed Sukarno not just as the nation builder, but as the nation-wrecker."
- "He was called a saboteur, a nation-wrecker, and many other Party words, and then in the end, since he would not stop his talk of justice, he was taken by the police to Accra."
- "and many more of their disreputable ilk, why isn't his visa lifted and this nation-wrecker sent back to where he came from and post haste?"
- "You are a lawyer, a Reverend minister, and a nation wrecker."