(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(2) Plans to pursue a second appeal against HMRC come despite MPs on the Public Accounts Committee citing the pub group's scheme as one example of "an illegitimate game to outwit the taxpayer".
(3) The Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik gave Slovakia the lead after 24 minutes, outwitting his marker to slot home left-footed.
(4) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
(5) So was the sense that she had outwitted the oil industry.
(6) An untold truth is that we use a tiny fraction of each computer's capacity: you could say we're already outwitted by them.
(7) Fortunately for the Guardian, the paper was able to retain barristers who outwitted the government’s lawyers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diane James’ acceptance speech from 16 September In her acceptance speech, she promised to bring a new professionalism to the party, saying: “We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more.” But questions were raised about her commitment to the post after she declined to take part in hustings debates around the country with rival candidates.
(9) And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel consoles teenage refugee brought to tears Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of “the politics of baby steps”, either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
(10) Vincent Kompany and Martín Demichelis never truly nullified his nuisance value, outwitted as they were by canny centre-forward play.
(11) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
(12) They showed footage of Cruise as a soldier who dies and must relive events over and over until he cracks a way to outwit pesky aliens hell-bent on destroying earth.
(13) The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
(14) Even as he found himself discussing how England might look to outwit an opposing lineout whose locks are 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in tall respectively, though, he will be uncomfortably aware his side could rack up a century of points and still depart the tournament with tails between legs.
(15) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
(16) Outwitted in that first international by the veteran Irish centre-forward Dave Walsh, of Aston Villa, Charles's massive physique, 6ft 2ins and 15 stone, availed him little that day.
(17) We – civil society – have been co-opted into economic and institutional processes in which we are being outwitted and out-manoeuvred.
(18) He can’t take it that we’ve out-tactic-ed him and outwitted him.
(19) For Merkel, Juncker is also a liability, a fellow Christian Democrat she has been outwitted into reluctantly supporting for the top job in Brussels later this year.
(20) For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" , "uneducated" "underclass" who somehow managed to outwit the police for the best part of a week using new technology.
Outwith
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) During the one year study period general practitioners from the west of Scotland obtained 2262.0 half-day sessions accredited for the postgraduate education allowance from 335 different courses outwith their region and 10 different distance learning programmes.
(2) Three patients with mild liver distrubance were found to have one bile salt in the upper limit of normal, but in each case the other primary bile salt was outwith the normal range.
(3) This means a war fought for a purpose other than self-defence: in other words outwith articles 33 and 51 of the UN Charter.
(4) In a survey of 383 moderate and severe hand injuries in adults, 246 (64.4%) occurred outwith work.
(5) In the majority of patients with theophylline or phenytoin concentrations outwith the therapeutic range, further analysis was not requested and so optimisation of dosage cannot be assumed to have occurred.
(6) However, children with a spelling or motor dysgraphia had speeds of motor performance on successive finger movements and rapid hand pats outwith the normal range.
(7) While much of this information has been communicated outwith the scientific literature, this review attempts to summarise, from a neuropathological viewpoint, the main findings to emerge.
(8) Current evidence does not support such widespread clinical application, outwith the current evaluation studies.
(9) Depletion of CD8+ T cells did not affect lymphoproliferation to HSV outwith recrudescence (four patients), nor lymphoproliferative responses to another antigen (PPD; five patients) during recrudescence.
(10) From this investigation the position of the S locus is proved to be outwith the Phi-Pgd region, next to Phi.
(11) On questioning following recovery, all except two patients reported loss of awareness of the onset of hypoglycaemia Intramuscular glucagon is valuable in the treatment of severe hypoglycaemia outwith hospital and, although the slightly slower and less predictable recovery may appear to make it a less attractive option than intravenous dextrose in the accident and emergency department, this must be balanced against the advantages of ease of administration and a lower incidence of serious adverse effects.
(12) In addition, considerable sums have been saved by servicing, modifying, and constructing other instruments for the laboratories outwith the immediate remit of Technicon maintenance.
(13) Thus ESAGs can be transcribed outwith an active VSG gene expression site and in the absence of expression of the VSG.
(14) It is not clear why vascular development is most prominent outwith the tumour when postulated angiogenic factors, such as tumour angiogenesis factor, are presumably released within.
(15) It was found that the hospital and hotel residents had virtually no interactions with people outwith the establishment in which they lived.
(16) The upsurge in solidarity and political engagement over Palestine is astonishing – and almost wholly outwith the political mainstream.
(17) I do agree that this feels like the Labour party’s Scotland moment – there’s a rejection of authority and there’s a rejection of the establishment both within the party and outwith it.
(18) Patients outwith this category were managed conservatively and a blood transfusion limit (10 units) imposed unless the clinical picture subsequently improved or the liver function was good but the patient was not eligible for surgery because of age.
(19) Over the same period 122 doctors outwith the area attended 263 different courses in the west of Scotland region.
(20) Despite concern regarding the removal of travel and subsistence contributions for postgraduate education activities, general practitioners are attending education courses outwith their region.