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The former is purely fictional and latter is based on a real figure, but both are historical epics on a grand scale that belies their modest budgets.
At 27, Duop’s youthful face belied a life marked by war and poverty.
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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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
