Be in contradiction with

Usage examples of belie.

With a fluidity that belied her appearance, Buddy dropped into a perfect lotus beside the deck, then turned to stare up at me, waiting.

There was a gharial beneath that deceptively calm surfacean ancient reptilian creature whose ferocity and ruthlessness belied the surface calm.

The Major Domo removed his mask to reveal a heavily joweled, ruddy face topped with graying red curls and shrewd blue eyes that belied his otherwise pleasant expression.

Major Domo removed his mask to reveal a heavily joweled, ruddy face topped with graying red curls and shrewd blue eyes that belied his otherwise pleasant expression.

The tranquility of the scene, even through the driving rain, seemed to belie the dire circumstances in which Omicron now found itself.

The story of German life during this interval is a rowdy and unhappy story--a story of faction fights and street encounters, demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, of a complicating tyranny of blackmailing officials, and at last of an ill managed and unsuccessful war, that belied the innate orderliness of the Teutonic peoples.

Steve Josephson, who inserted the large phlebotomy needle into a vein with a dexterity belied by his thick fingers.

Greene was a strong, powerful man, widely re- puted to be handsome as sin, and with a devilishly charming smile that belied an occasionally ferocious temper.

Sergeant Tace spoke, in a clear soft voice, which belied his appearance.

Her rose gown, covered with a grey lace overdress, belied its cost with simplicity of cut.

Platonic love originates in this dialogue, and Kundera performs a parodic variation on it by staging a discussion of love in a hospital, place of bodily breakdown and repair, that decidedly emphasizes the physical even as it comically belies the validity of that very solid source of erotic power.

Kitty echoed dubiously, but she assumed a demure expression, belied only by the sparkle in her dark, ex pressive eyes, and linked her arm in that of her brother.

She spoke in a normal tone that belied the sudden squirmy sensations his compliment had caused.

It was opened a few moments later by Lord Draco, who took in the fallen guards and the tonsured priests with a glance, reaching for his sword with a speed that belied his age.

Flinging away his cigarette, Reggie grabbed for Clyde, nabbed him with a powerful grip that belied his unmuscular appearance.