Examples of belie

• And the variety produced is of a richness that seems to belie the smooth, unobtrusive functioning of the instrument.

• Cases of merger belie the view that lexical and auxiliary readings are exclusive.

• Their presentation style belies the subtle but momentous social transformation they are orchestrating - the reconfiguration of gender and ethnic relations.

• The traditional image, however, belies the sectoral variations and the effects of democratization after 1987.

• The accompaniment soon gives way to a semiquaver wheedling figure, painting the epidermal 'worm' that belies the serene countenance (bars 20-21).

• But it was constitutionally significant, issuing from principles which dramatically belied the existence of a purely personal union.

• The recovery of the euro did belie critics who had initially derided it as a weak currency.

• In fact, their belief was belied by the criminal statistics.