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
That would inevitably mean direct conflict in which she was sure to be worsted.
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
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
God is love, God is our Father, we are His children; therefore the darkest clouds will break, and though right be worsted, wrong shall not triumph.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
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
