belie

be·lie  (b-l)

tr.v. be·lied, be·ly·ing, be·lies

1. To picture falsely; misrepresent: "He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility" James Joyce.

2. To show to be false: Their laughter belied their outward grief.

3. To be counter to; contradict: At first glance, life at the boarding school seemed to belie all the bad things I had heard about it.

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[Middle English bilien, from Old English belogan, to deceive with lies; see leugh- in Indo-European roots.]

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be·lier n.

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belie

Verb

[-lying, -lied]

1. to show to be untrue: the facts belied the theory

2. to misrepresent: the score belied the closeness of the match

3. to fail to justify: the promises were soon belied [Old English belēogan]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	belie - be in contradiction with contradict, negate depart, deviate, vary, diverge - be at variance with; be out of line with
	2.	belie - represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" misrepresent sentimentalize, sentimentalise - look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment; "Don't sentimentalize the past events" distort, falsify, garble, warp - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story dissemble, feign, pretend, sham, affect - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" represent - serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl"

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belie

verb 1. misrepresent, disguise, conceal, distort, misinterpret, falsify, gloss over

verb 2. disprove, deny, expose, discredit, contradict, refute, repudiate, negate, invalidate, rebut, give the lie to, make a nonsense of, gainsay (archaic), (literary) prove false, blow out of the water (slang) controvert, confute

Translations

belie [bɪˈlaɪ] vt (= give false impression of) → desmentir, contradecir

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belie [bɪˈlaɪ] vt → démentir (= give false impression of); occulter

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belie [bɪˈlaɪ] vt (contradict) → im Widerspruch stehen zu;

(give false impression of) → hinwegtäuschen über +acc;

(disprove) → widerlegen, Lügen strafen

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belie [bɪˈlaɪ] vt → smentire [+ give false impression of]; nascondere