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

Jarír's fame as a satirist stood so high that to be worsted by him was reckoned a greater distinction than to vanquish any one else.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

Now if we turned back and tried to recover our outfit, we should certainly have to fight the trappers, and probably we'd be worsted, for they outmatch us in weapons.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie

She has tact to avoid the conflict in which she would be worsted.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

In the struggle which must come, simple Gabrielle would be worsted.

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