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 would be worsted in the end, so she went reluctantly.
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
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 Anthony Hope
And Cousin Park, knowing herself to be worsted, sighed a great, heaving sigh and looked sadly at the Major's portrait, as though if he had been alive he would have protected her.
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
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 Edward Hitchcock
