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
She was a lady stronger than her husband;—stronger in this, that she never allowed herself to be worsted in any encounter.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
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
How certain to be worsted in an argument with an accomplished naturalist who is a sceptic!
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
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
