Sample Sentences for
belie
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(editor-reviewed)

belie as in:  his smile belied his treachery

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His gruff demeanor belies a soft heart.
belies = is in contradiction with
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    "I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves." His sarcasm collapses.  (source)
    belie = give a false impression of
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    Then they became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with which fierce beasts belie their fierceness.  (source)
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    His thin hands belied a firm grip, as if steel hid beneath the moisturized skin.  (source)
    belied = gave a false impression regarding
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    Songs that led you to leap and alight in a manner that belied your age.  (source)
    belied = gave a false impression regarding
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    I make myself as small as possible, as if my size could belie our closeness.†  (source)
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    There is something there that belies the callowhess and thoughtless egotism which you wear so well.†  (source)
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    The wound was short and thin, belying its depth.  (source)
    belying = giving a false impression of
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    Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg.†  (source)
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    PER: And, I have heard, they are most lewd impostors; Made all of terms and shreds; no less beliers Of great men's favours, than their own vile med'cines; Which they will utter upon monstrous oaths: Selling that drug for two-pence, ere they part, Which they have valued at twelve crowns before.†  (source)
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    I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when, ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense.  (source)
    belied = contradicted
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    Chock-full of breathtaking leaps and innovative steps that belie Ms. Echevarri's own training in the classical style, the work takes one particular dance, the shingaling, and creates a visual narrative through which the rest of the work weaves.†  (source)
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    He possesses enormous talent, but I fear the fidgeting belies an underlying weakness.†  (source)
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    The old, dilapidated house stood in the setting sun, quiet and serene, belying the horror that it had harbored for so many years.†  (source)
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belie as in:  the loss belied our confidence

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Her actions belie her words.
belie = show to be false
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    History belies the stereotype.
    belies = shows to be false
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    But you look closely and you see the helpless look, the desperation, and how it belies all their show of good humor.  (source)
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    Harker smiled, actually smiled, the dark, bitter smile of one who is without hope, but at the same time his action belied his words, for his hands instinctively sought the hilt of the great Kukri knife and rested there.  (source)
    belied = showed to be false
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    After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.  (source)
    belied = showed to be false
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    It was with reluctance that he suffered her to go; but there was no look of despair in parting to belie his words, or give her hopes of his being less unreasonable than he professed himself.  (source)
    belie = show to be false
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    —he displayed deft skills as a bureaucratic obstructionist that further belied his reputation as a simpleton.  (source)
    belied = showed to be false
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    Several days later, they invited Jefferson to dine, one of several events that belie claims made then and later that Adams and Jefferson refused to speak.  (source)
    belie = show to be false
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    "I'm not frightened," whispered Lydia Sessions through white lips that belied her assertion.  (source)
    belied = showed to be false
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    Raffe positions himself between me and Belie!  (source)
    Belie = a name
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    He was telling Mr. McAllister about the winter morning when Brother Belie Jones's wife fired up her stove and shut the oven door, not knowing her cat was asleep in there.  (source)
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    To Abigail he would later write, "I have been so strangely used in this country, so belied and so undefended that I was determined to say some things as an appeal to posterity."  (source)
    belied = lied about
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    Brother Belie Jones, the Baptist preacher, said God just wasn't ready to take her Home, praise Jesus, or else He had something more for her to do here before she passed into the Great Beyond.  (source)
    Belie = a name
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    Belies wounds won't be healing anytime soon if Raffe is right about angel swords.  (source)
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    Brother Belie Jones didn't give any eulogy, but he asked God to comfort the young widow and raise the baby in the Bosom of the Lamb, and then he read Scriptures for an hour.  (source)
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