1 However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us.
2 Therein you belie the natur of an Indian.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 3 He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility for his entry had been followed by a pause of talk.
4 After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.
5 The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates.
6 An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game.
7 Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.