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Belie   /bɪlˈaɪ/   Listen
verb
Belie  v. t.  (past & past part. belied; pres. part. belying)  
1.
To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. "Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues."
2.
To give a false representation or account of. "Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts."
3.
To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander. "Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him."
4.
To mimic; to counterfeit. (Obs.)
5.
To fill with lies. (Obs.) "The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world."





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... house, and another son, Robert, boasted of the kindly notice which the poet took of him as a child. {265b} It is safer to adopt the less compromising version which makes Shakespeare the godfather of the boy William instead of his father. But the antiquity and persistence of the scandal belie the assumption that Shakespeare was known to his contemporaries as a man of scrupulous virtue. Ben Jonson and Drayton—the latter a Warwickshire man—seem to have been Shakespeare's closest literary friends ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... not to belie the old proverb, jugglers were never received into the order of knighthood. They were, after a time, as much abused as they had before been extolled. Their licentious lives reflected itself in their obscene language. Their pantomimes, like their songs, showed ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix
... so too. The "Irish wail" has been the last straw. He precedes everyone towards the wings with joyous barks which quite belie his air of long-suffering cynicism. It is ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... how she should deal with the subject. The question was not an easy one to answer. She believed herself very much better, in every respect: to say No, therefore, would belie her wishes and convictions; yet to say Yes, would spoil the effect of her lecture. There was moreover, a dim impression on her mind that Phoebe was incapable of perceiving the delicate distinction ...
— The Maidens' Lodge - None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) • Emily Sarah Holt
... looks and tone belie thee," said Hilda, smiling. "But in all seriousness, Ada, let me advise thee again to be more considerate with Glumm, for I sometimes think that the men who are most worth having are the most ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne


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