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
O shame to Britain, and the British name, Shame damps my heart, and I must die with shame— Thus to be worsted, thus disgraced and beat!—
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
The Tungan leaders, deluded by the inaction of Yakoob Beg into a belief that he was unable to prosecute the enterprise he had undertaken, assumed the offensive, only to be worsted in several minor engagements.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
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
According to Mill, we are little self-dependent gods, fighting with a malignant and murderous power called Nature, sure, one would think, to be worsted in the struggle.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
