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But these terms belie the simplicity of what really happened. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: American Casino -- Gambling on Timebomb Loans] Reference
Spectacular shots which kind of belie the danger which is involved here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007] Reference
The word "belie" seems to like shifting its meaning in baffling ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
These terms belie their ancient history. From Wordnik.com. [Heading on Down To Xmas..We're All Still Sun Worshippers at Heart] Reference
And his looks did not belie his laughter-loving nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Is that weapon-beworthy'd, but his visage belie him, 250. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
"He is, or his looks belie him," interjaculated Torbert. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
But its fantastical proportions belie its somber function. From Wordnik.com. [How Green Was My Installation] Reference
Now, finally, take another instance how names belie facts. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Esope, of the belie and handes, manifestlie sheweth thesame. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
The famous man wears a mask of love, but his deeds belie it. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
"He says all the right things, but his actions belie his words.". From Wordnik.com. [The Custer Syndrome] Reference
Your ideas of the after-life seem to belie your professed creeds. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
Come, come, Sir, Draw, draw; you'll belie my Daughter again wil you?. From Wordnik.com. [The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold] Reference
Waymon: Your references to old movie and Broadway stars belie your ages!. From Wordnik.com. [Waymon Hudson: Interview With the Boys of Jeffery and Cole Casserole] Reference
BRIGHT-EYED AND ENergetic, Joshua and Reuel belie their tragic histories. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Kids Are They?] Reference
"You simple man, they want you for themselves; that is why they belie me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
If fame does not belie them, these Arab commanders are notorious smugglers. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Tarses's political blunders belie her pedigree in the entertainment business. From Wordnik.com. [She's Out Of Friends] Reference
Indeed, if he were not a bureaucrat, he would very much belie his French origin. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
But some of the personal effects inside his apartment seemed to belie that claim. From Wordnik.com. ['The Cannibal Poet'] Reference
One species, the porcupine grass, bears a name that does not belie its character. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Her dark hair waves gracefully and the scattering strands of gray quite belie her youth. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Very likely the people are better than their priests, but if so, their looks belie them. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Nor did his appearance in any way belie his reputation, which was unsavory in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"The Hungarian was created on horseback," says a proverb, and Andras did not belie the saying. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mrs. Eastman had a sour-looking countenance, which did not in the least belie her disposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Even when people hire someone in whom they have faith, the results often belie their expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Tools for hiring a handyman] Reference
And yet he had agreed to paint him but the reason for doing so no facade of innocence could belie. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
It wasn't just the two leaders whose bonhomie seemed to belie the seriousness of the issues at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Horseplay And High Stakes] Reference
His roots belie the race-baiting lies of a partisan fight, which goes back decades to Bill Clinton's foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Taylor Marsh: Of Teachable Moments] Reference
Ford chairman Alex Trotman will regale anyone who will listen about how Antarctic ice cores belie the notion that the world is warming. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Hot Air] Reference
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