Belied
[bɪ'laɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Belie
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Examples
- There's stabling in this place for a dozen horses; and unless Nickits is belied, he kept the full number. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And would you not like to be the one person who believed in that man's innocence, if the rest of the world belied him? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Cold and peculiar, I knew it for the partner of a rarely-belied presentiment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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