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Example Sentences
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At 27, Duop’s youthful face belied a life marked by war and poverty.
From Salon
He casts the country as crime-ridden, though the data belie him again.
She does everything to belie the fact that she’s pretty, which only makes the self-loathing aspect of her character more ludicrous.
They’ll point out that the strategy’s supposed “predisposition to non-interventionism” is belied by his Caribbean campaign and the strike on the Iranian nuclear program.
The upbeat aftermath of Friday’s meeting belied profound differences of opinion between the leaders of two nations that have an almost 2,000-mile border and share deep economic, security and cultural ties.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
