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
That would inevitably mean direct conflict in which she was sure to be worsted.
From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus
Unless he grappled with the situation without delay, he would assuredly be worsted.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
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
It was the boy over again in his underground cellar, unwilling to be worsted in his “penny a shave,” striking out the bold line of a halfpenny one.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
