Usually means: Conceals true nature or characteristics.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. belies: Merriam-Webster
  2. belies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. belies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Belies, belies: Wordnik
  6. belies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. belies: Wiktionary
  8. belies: Dictionary.com
  9. belies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. belies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belies: Legal dictionary

(Note: See belie as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (belie)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To tell lies about.
verb:  (transitive) To give a false representation of.
verb:  (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To fill with lies; to lie to.
verb:  (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
verb:  (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince or demonstrate (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
verb:  (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
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