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belies

verb as in disprove

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From his initial interviews with reporters to his conversations with fellow fighters, Mark is kind and collected, an all-around good guy whose amiable manner belies his capacity for violence.

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While Maron sometimes kvetches about Feinartz’s hovering cameras, he seems to have given him a kind of all-access pass to his daily life in a way that belies his trademark crankiness.

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At the same time, the activity in the town belies the desolation implied by building data that show only 30% of destroyed homes have been replaced.

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Her sanguine — and mischievously macabre — response belies the fact that the fire, coupled with the long years of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused an extended fallow period during which she completely stopped creating art.

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But their over-the-top whining belies their true understanding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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