Vocabulary Word
Word: belie
Definition: contradict; give a false impression; disguise; Ex. The poor sales belied our high hopes; Ex. Her smile belies her true feeling of displeasure.
Definition: contradict; give a false impression; disguise; Ex. The poor sales belied our high hopes; Ex. Her smile belies her true feeling of displeasure.
Sentences Containing 'belie'
However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction.
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::: nullify - make invalid; make null; invalidate
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::: paramount - foremost in importance; supreme; CF. para-: beyond; above; Ex. paranormal
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::: defer - give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; N. deferment; CF. show respect, comply with, courteous
::: deposition - testimony under oath; deposing; dethroning
::: deterrent - something that discourages or deters
