The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belie \Be*lie"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belied; p. pr. & vb. n. Belying.] [OE. bilien, bili?en, AS. bele['o]gan; pref. be- + le['o]gan to lie. See Lie, n.]
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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.
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To give a false representation or account of.
Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
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To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
--Shak. To mimic; to counterfeit. [Obs.]
--Dryden.To fill with lies. [Obs.] ``The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of belie English)
WordNet
v. be in contradiction with [syn: contradict, negate]
represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" [syn: misrepresent]
[also: belying]
See belie
Usage examples of "belying".
Felisin made no effort to help, watching with fascination as he managed the task with a deftness belying the apparent awkwardness of the scarred stumps of his wrists.
Up the stairs she paused to run the bath, down the hall undoing her blouse with the worn address book still tight in her hand she'd barely lit the bedroom and slipped off her shoes, barely come down among the papers on the bed bent over the last of them, the cool, grey calm of his eyes belying.
Opened to the Ds now, licking her fingertip past dogtrot, dive, her finger ran down dishevel, dishpan hands till it reached disinterested, where the precisely incorrect definition she sought was confirmed in a citation from a pundit for the Times, she drew a line through indifferent and wrote it in, worrying at calm with faint prods of the pencil point: the cool, disinterested calm of his eyes belying?
Knees drawn up she pulled the towel round her bared shoulders and a shiver sent breath through her, staring at that page till she seized the pencil to draw it heavily through his still, sinewed hands, hard irregular features, the cool disinterested calm of his eyes and a bare moment's pause bearing down with the pencil on his hands, disjointed, rust spotted, his crumbled features dulled and worn as the bill collector he might have been mistaken for, the desolate loss in his eyes belying, belying.
The towel went to the floor in a heap and she was up naked, legs planted wide broached by scissors wielded murderously on the screen where she dug past it for the rag of a book its cover gone, the first twenty odd pages gone in fact, so that it opened full on the line she sought, coming down with the pencil on belying, a sense that he was still a part of all that he could have been.
Bremen led them swiftly, steadily on, the pace belying his age and challenging theirs.
Dour-faced Kherahnal moved among them, their gifts and gestures belying their expressions and reserve.
The captain appeared a few minutes later, a forced smile belying his attempts to calm his passengers' fears.
She was smiling up at him, her expression belying her words although the anxiety in her eyes was so intense she was close to tears.
The soldier - who appeared sixteen behind his straggly fair moustache, acne belying his manhood - nodded, and moved on, the 7.
I know I can make the other Q listen, he thought, belying what he had told Picard earlier.
Bruenor demanded, his axe slapping nervously against his hand, belying uncharacteristic impatience from the veteran fighter.
Umrae D'Dgttu said, her whip-thin frame belying her puissance as the most powerful cleric among them, "but this is unnecessary.
The castle sprawled over several towering stalagmites and columns, its elegant balustrades and soaring buttresses belying the underlying strength of the rambling towers and mighty bulwarks of dark stone.