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Meanings of worthy adversary in anglès

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Usage of worthy adversary in anglès
1
If you find a worthy adversary you can challenge them to rematches.
The Irish Times
2
For you, my worthy adversary, I think the price is worthwhile.
Heart of stone
3
Even a worthy adversary would have little chance against an ambush like this.
Consent to kill: a thriller
4
Humans had been a great power, a worthy adversary technologically.
Halo Cryptum
5
Please. He smiled slightly, as if acknowledging a worthy adversary.
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
6
Now that she had come into her full powers, Mercy would be a worthy adversary.
Sanctuary
7
Solo says she thinks Gulati considers her "a worthy adversary" after their encounters.
The Guardian
8
I must have been a worthy adversary, right?
First among sequels
9
You've been a worthy adversary, I must admit.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
10
Hitherto Elas Peterman had represented only a sufficiently worthy adversary who must be encountered and defeated.
The Man in the Twilight
11
Of course if it was a worthy adversary, he'd skip the knife and use the silenced gun.
Consent to kill: a thriller
12
Walking back to his office with Garvey, he issues a few choice epithets for his worthy adversary.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
13
A tiger is a worthy adversary.
Neverwhere
14
Bronso Vernius is a worthy adversary, but he could never match the resources we brought to bear against him.
The Winds of Dune
15
Pat Hickey, initially part of the Irish bid, was missed as a worthy adversary for Bernard Laporte's Machiavellian strides.
The Irish Times
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Neither general had been defeated up to the moment they faced each other; neither could succumb to any less worthy adversary.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 / F...
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