verb (belies, belying, belied, belied) [VN] (formal)
1 to give a false impression of sb/sth:
Her energy and youthful good looks belie her 65 years.
2 to show that sth cannot be true or correct:
Government claims that there is no poverty are belied by the number of homeless people on the streets.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for belie is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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