Proved otherwise

Usage examples of belied.

His voice and his words belied the darkness in his eyes and the grim brackets etched deeply on either side of his mouth.

He caressed her with a gentle care that belied the harshness of his face.

The certainty of her wariness was all that was keeping his hands where they were, stroking her back with slow sweeps that belied the passionate blaze of his narrowed eyes.

With a grace that belied the exhausted shadows beneath her eyes, she picked up the heavy wrench, fastened it to the valve, and put her whole body into giving it a good solid turn.

With a surprising swiftness that belied his age, h( rounded on Treaty Controller, and his tone, n( longer kindly or gentle, rang with conviction.

And, as her Opposite number, Hrrouf, a financier from Hrruba, arrived with a pale-pelted female with a limp air about her belied by scarred ears and forearms, whom he introduced as Nrrena.

She had turned out to be a monumentally unfussy eater, but in sheer capacity she belied the scrawny underdeveloped frame.

His light brown eyes, wide and innocent, belied the quick mind behind them.

Sallah watched apprehensively, although she knew full well the strength belied by Tarvi’s lean frame.

Ogolly asked formally, his tone belied by his wide grin and happy eyes.

The mouth, whitely compressed, belied the eyes-eyes dark and filled with pain.

A lined tired face, a middle-aged face that belied the thick, snow-white hair above, a face deeply, splendidly etched by experience, by a sorrowing and suffering such as Reynolds could not even begin to imagine, it held more goodness, more wisdom and tolerance and understanding than Reynolds had ever seen in the face of any man before.

And worst still, she would regard him as the sole instrument of her father's death, the barrier between them would for ever remain, and Reynolds looking for the hundredth time at the smiling curve of the mouth and the grave, troubled eyes above that belied the smile, realised, with a slow wonder and a profound sense of shock, that was what he feared above all.

The levity of the words were belied by the cool watchful expression on his face as his eyes constantly travelled the room.

I had to look away, and there was Trudi, her hands opening and closing, her mesmerized entranced face with a hideous animal-like quality to it: and beside her the Reverend Goodbody, his face as benign and gently benevolent as ever, an expression that belied his staring eyes.