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
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
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
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
He was too honest himself not to be worsted by such a speech.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
