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
"Foreseeing that in the struggle against the Convention the Commune might be worsted, my husband arrested, and the house searched, I already have had the casket carried to the home of one of our friends."
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
That would inevitably mean direct conflict in which she was sure to be worsted.
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
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 Anthony Trollope
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 Reynold Nicholson
