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

The aim seems to be to put Sigel and his purposely-reduced and disorganized forces in such a condition and position that he may be worsted or destroyed by the enemy.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

According to Mill, we are little self-dependent gods, fighting with a malignant and murderous power called Nature, sure, one would think, to be worsted in the struggle.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

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 Robertson, A. Fraser

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