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
Moreover, Williams Cache, it was conceded, would in the end be worsted if the company and the cowmen together seriously undertook with men and unlimited money to clean it out.
From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
She has tact to avoid the conflict in which she would be worsted.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
O shame to Britain, and the British name, Shame damps my heart, and I must die with shame— Thus to be worsted, thus disgraced and beat!—
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
To shrink from discussion would be to confess weakness; to suffer themselves to be worsted in discussion would be seriously to imperil their power.
From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson
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