had belied
- past perfect of belie.
Example Sentences
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He had spoken with solemnity, of duty, as higher than love; and she had laughed again, her deep soft laugh, though the look in her eyes had belied her laughter.
From Christina by Moberly, L. G.
He had belied the use and dignity of his training.
From The New Warden by Ritchie, Mrs. David G.
Little things, almost impalpable, had happened to justify that doubt; something in his manner had belied his words.
From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
But old Savage hailed from silly Suffolk, and all his life he had belied his surname, but never the alliterative libel on his native country.
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
The Clint Darrow of her girlhood dreams, grown rather paunchy and mottled now, and with the curling black hair but a sparse grizzled fringe, had belied Horace Winter's contemptuous opinion.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
