belie

belie

englanti

  1. antaa väärä käsitys jostakin, olla ristiriidassa jonkin kanssa

  2. todistaa vääräksi, tyhjäksi, romuttaa

Esimerkkejä belie sanan käytöstä:

The quality and look of the product 'belies' the price paid.

Synonyymisanakirja

belie

  1. suhtautua tunteenomaisesti, tunteilla, vääristellä, vääristää, esittää väärin, antaa väärä käsitys jstak, tekeytyä, teeskennellä, näytellä, sepittää, esittää, poiketa, erota, olla ristiriidassa, kumota.

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Käännökset

englanti

olla ristiriidassa

antaa väärä käsitys jstak puhekieltä To lie around; encompass.
puhekieltä To surround; beleaguer.
puhekieltä To tell lies about; to slander. (defdate)
Shakespeare

Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
puhekieltä To give a false representation of, to misrepresent. (defdate)
Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
(RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), II.2.6.iv:
He found it by experience, and made good use of it in his own person, if Plutarch belie him not ….
puhekieltä To contradict, to show (something) to be false. (defdate)
Dryden
Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.

Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.

puhekieltä To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
2013, Elizabeth Koh, "Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought," http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/us/fighting-pest-farmers-find-strange-ally-a-drought.html New York Times, August 31, 2013
The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.

His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.

puhekieltä To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
1993, Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41586-6, http://books.google.com/books?id=z72pH1LxteEC&pg=PA28&dq=belies page 28:
A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation.
2016 August 30, Jeanne Marie Laskas, “http://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns”, *GQonline:
(..) a low, flat, boring building that belies its past as an IRS facility (..)
puhekieltä To mimic; to counterfeit.

(rfquotek)

puhekieltä To fill with lies.
The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world.

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