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Sentence Examples In fables, Uncle Coyote is constantly outwitted by the jokester and trickster Uncle Rabbit. For decades scientists have sought reliable ways to detect deception, only to be outwitted by liars capable of deceiving their instruments. After 15 minutes the unwieldy but effective Adam Pilling outwitted the Worcester goalkeeper, only to have his effort ruled out for offside. Wal-Mart outwitted its rival by growing slowly since 1962 and first planting itself in many rural areas, where it cost much less to build. He has so far cleverly outwitted and outflanked this attempt to marginalize him on the political stage. People enjoyed laughing at the foolishness of spoiled young men being outwitted by card sharps. In The Abduction from the Seraglio, in The Magic Flute, the prisoners will be guarded by jailers whose vigilance must be outwitted. Similarly, Wabanaki traditions about how they outwitted the Mohawks function to give them a patriotic spirit. Tottenham, outmanned in midfield and outwitted by Arsenal's high tempo technique, could not cope. The system can therefore not be outwitted by silicone fingerprints or even a cut-off finger. In Hodge's hands he becomes, endearingly, a born loser, easily outwitted by the Chicago shark, Big Jule. The distance separating the carrier and the defender must constantly decrease. Nonetheless, caution must be exercised to avoid being outwitted. He unravelled the Western music model and outwitted its natural ethnocentrism. For example, a fingerprint system can be outwitted with a simple strip of sticky tape. When you don't reach your goal, when you are rejected or ignored or just outwitted for the moment, you are experiencing a fall. Awestruck by its glittering new friends in business, but baffled by the complexities of the scheme it supports, it has been consistently outwitted and outmanoeuvred. In that case, the ones who are hurt the most are the least intelligent men, whose true equals have been snatched away by dominance-seeking men who have outwitted them. Their crack troops would not have been so easily panicked or outwitted. In particular, I wish to offer hearty congratulations on the way you outwitted the Government over the trade practices law business earlier this week. It is by seeing the market clearly in its fakeries that he outwitted it to get so rich. Show More Sentences The King was outwitted and outlaws released the hostages. Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome. One of them is outwitted, but the other persists, and soon enough, thanks to a long ladder deployed like old-fashioned grappling irons, the Maersk is boarded. Well, Mr Blair, having collapsed in the negotiations, having been totally outwitted, outclassed and outplayed by President Chirac, has signed a really rather bad deal for the British taxpayer. The guerrillas have repeatedly outwitted it in the past 12 months, and lamentation that it needs more men and more weapons cannot explain that away. Like Coyote, like so many trickster-creators, Anansi, an African spider-god of stories, has tales in which he is outwitted, and in which he outwits. Bernier was with Hadwin when he outwitted a pair of charging grizzly bears by dodging across a stream and feinting upwind, where they couldn't smell him. But the Dalai Lama may have outwitted them. Although he did not shine last year in the country's first free elections in 44 years, Abdurrahman Wahid outwitted his rivals to secure the presidency. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. But the smugglers outwitted the local mills. Examples from Classical Literature He saw that they had literally obeyed his orders, and that he had been outwitted. But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. Sharp as Mr. bobolink was, we knew all his tricks, and had outwitted him often. He saw that he was outwitted, that he was helpless, that he was even in personal danger. I was outwitted by my first victim, a thin old gentleman riding a cob at night on the Geelong road. He told them how the Dragon had been outwitted by his grandmother, and how he had heard from his own lips the answer to the riddle. Pepin was outwitted, and threw away the prey after he had hunted it down. The poison story had been a gag to make him think he had outwitted Domber. This effect is produced when the clever rogue, like Sisyphus, is outwitted, or the brave villain defeated. She felt all the fiery indignation of the schemer who has been outwitted. I will wait awhile and enjoy the humiliation of this Sorceress when she finds I have outwitted her. And yet he was aware that she had outwitted him and gained his secret. Marzak tightened his lips, realizing how completely he had been outwitted. He must go to Kasia Vard and confess that he had been outwitted. Astok could scarce repress a grin at the clever manner in which he had outwitted the noble and disposed of him at the same time. But this time I was not to be outwitted by any such petty subterfuge. Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the major. The magazine, which once set the pace of political satire, was outwitted in the circulation department by the racier Private Eye and the schoolboyish Viz magazine. Pavel snatched the cup and drank, then made Peter give him the bottle and slipped it under his pillow, grinning disagreeably, as if he had outwitted someone. Find more words! 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