be worsted

Example Sentences

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But to Propagandist Franklin-Bouillion logic is something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unless he grappled with the situation without delay, he would assuredly be worsted.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

According to Mill, we are little self-dependent gods, fighting with a malignant and murderous power called Nature, sure, one would think, to be worsted in the struggle.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

I have been paying more attention to these things of late, and I feel that in the end we shall be worsted.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

But to see him adoring this other—that was to be worsted on the merits—not merely to be impossible, but to be undesired.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony