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was belied
verb
To lie around; encompass.
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It was belied by a collection of expensive properties in Chile.
Yet their talk of easy victory was belied by a failure to follow through.
It was a virtuoso performance, the stress of which was belied by her dry brow.
The Broadway ending was belied, Prose reminds us, by Anne Frank's fate.
The uncertainty of the situation was belied, however, by the following inflammatory rhetoric: "But let there be no misunderstanding.
The snapshot, brief as it was, belied the immense stresses bearing down on Thomas and his franchise.
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This is belied by the facts.
America's bold promises were belied by its actions.
But the defiant words are belied by the record.
Yet his own optimism is belied by RockPort's investments.
That anachronism is belied by these two exhibitions, charged with whipsaw violence and erotic play.
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