be worsted
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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
He was too honest himself not to be worsted by such a speech.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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 Frank Lillie Pollock
“Well, lad, mainly that Jonas Harding, who was as quick on the trail and as good a woodsman as myself, should be worsted by a mad buck; it seems downright impossible, Nuck.”
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster
It was the boy over again in his underground cellar, unwilling to be worsted in his “penny a shave,” striking out the bold line of a halfpenny one.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson
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