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

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

On a subsequent occasion, however, it was St. Thomas' turn to be worsted in a similar contest of holy humility.

From Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Costelloe, Laurence

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

But to see him adoring this other—that was to be worsted on the merits—not merely to be impossible, but to be undesired.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony