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belie

 verb
     
be‧lie past tense and past participle belied, present participle belying [transitive]
1 to give someone a false idea about something:
Her pleasant manner belied her true character.
2 to show that something cannot be true or real:
His cheerful smile belied his words.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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