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
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
If you think––” “Are you all ready?” interrupted Barnes, hastily, 364 knowing he would be worsted in any argument with this veteran player.
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
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
An Englishman ought not to underrate their talents in this particular, or he will probably be worsted in an encounter of words.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
