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 Hitchcock, Edward
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 Wilson, Woodrow
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
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 Pollock, Frank Lillie
