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

I have been paying more attention to these things of late, and I feel that in the end we shall be worsted.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

That would inevitably mean direct conflict in which she was sure to be worsted.

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus

We have been beaten in an election, but I don't think we ought to be worsted in a struggle of generosity and good feeling.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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