demoralizers

The New England conscience bucked again, and Kent made his first open protest against the methods of the demoralizers.

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

I consider such people the greatest demoralizers of the age, flaunting their ill-gotten wealth in the faces of the honest, and causing the young to think that if they only get money, no matter how, society will receive them all the same.

Opening a Chestnut Burr Edward Payson Roe 1863

But the teachers of the doctrine of the right divine do not expunge from human affairs the passions, errors, and vices of the individuals who put their systems in practice; and absolute power, which is the greatest of all demoralizers, entails before long upon communities, whether civil or religious, the disorders, abuses, faults, and evils which it is the special province of governments to prevent or keep under.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830

Deal therefore with these ferocious demoralizers, as our crafty mariners trade with the savages of the Indian ocean - — with your men at their posts, your guns loaded, and your slow matches burning!

The works, in verse and prose, of the late Robert Treat Paine, jun., esq. [microform] : with notes, to which are prefixed sketches of his life, character and writings 1812