be worsted
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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 would be worsted in the end, so she went reluctantly.
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
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 Woodrow Wilson
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 Anthony Hope
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 Laurence Costelloe
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