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Definition:to contradict; to misrepresent
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“I can't win, 'cause of the shape I'm in.” (Said with a laugh that belied the content.)
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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If thou hast belied women, he will judge thee unkind : if thou have revealed the troth, he must needs think thee unconstant
John Lyly. The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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I got little out of him. He struck me as stupid, and yet the deftness with which he worked with his one hand seemed to belie his stupidity.
Jack London. The Iron Heel
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“I have the pleasure of being already acquainted, if the countess remembers me,” said Prince Andrew with a low and courteous bow quite belying Peronskaya’s remarks about his rudeness, and approaching Natasha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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they became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with which fierce beasts belie their fierceness.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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