outgeneral

There were many signs, and I had to be always on the lookout to outgeneral them.

From Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly

Then I saw an elderly gentleman pacing back and forth between two feminine chatterboxes, and trying to outgeneral the two happy people.

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde

He had spent four hundred dollars in recovering one third of the stolen money, and had suffered the thief to outgeneral him.

From The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor

But that he could outgeneral William, that he could even manage Gospatrick and his intrigues Hereward expected as little as that his own nephews Edwin and Morcar could do it.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

Well, as anybody at the Drones will tell you, Bertram Wooster is a pretty hard chap to outgeneral.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I don't know when I have ever been as comprehensively and pleasurably outgeneraled as I am when I read Martin.

From Time ● Jul. 9, 2011

She got outgeneraled and outfought by Shirley Fry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outnumbered, outgunned, outgeneraled, and easily outfought, the rebels in Sumatra last week were pushed to the wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

How completely the enemy had been outgeneraled was evident in the positions of Eisenhower's armies.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Brandywine especially, Washington is supposed to have been "outgeneraled, more outgeneraled than in any action during the war."

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Out-gunning and outgeneraling the U.S. players at every turn, Sedgman never let either of his opponents get really set, much less launch an attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

The smile was that of the conquering hero, outgeneraling in retreat allied forces outnumbering his small army a thousand times.

From Cupid's Middleman by Edward B. Lent

"The Building Fund" tells the story of the outgeneraling of grasping son and conniving daughter's daughter by a hard old woman of the strong farmer class in the west of Ireland.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt

By the spring of 1942, Slim admits, "we, the Allies, had been outmanoeuvred, outfought, and outgeneralled."

From Time Magazine Archive

Cecil was a bright, pretty, wilful girl, and he liked her, yet he had a strong feeling of being outgeneralled.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The Thebans had been outgeneralled, and were dismayed by the result.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

Cornwallis, who had gone to bed expecting to make short work of Washington in the morning, saw himself fairly outgeneralled.

From The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 by Samuel Adams Drake

"The staff reports," began the messages that awakened a world, retiring with the idea that the Browns were grimly holding the defensive, to the news that three millions had outgeneralled and defeated five.

From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer

He is a master tactician, and wins most of his matches by outgeneralling the other player.

From The Art of Lawn Tennis by William (Bill) Tatem Tilden