(verb) to give a false impression of / (verb) to present an appearance not in agreement with / (verb) to show (something) to be false or wrong / (verb) to run counter to; contradict / (verb) disguise
Not only does the 'historical 'dialectical' belie the speculative dialectic; we have to admit that there is no dialectic at all.
the excessive single quotes are a mistake in the original I think
That wage earners, without social position or higher education or wealth, are of inferior intellect is surely belied by the fact that two of the most splendid writers and speakers on the deepest subjects in American history are self-taught workmen.
Brecht's disorientation before the revolt of the proletariat that belied (realized) his politics
which are then immediately belied by events a few weeks later
this is one of those words that I theoretically know but sometimes think means the opposite
The absurdly casual dress belies a manner both articulate and direct
We do not resist a new world into being; we resist in the name of an old world. The contemporary emphasis on resistance therefore belies a defensive stance towards the encroachments of expansionary capitalism.
Yet this is largely belied by his account of its actual trajectory.
Their continued activities belied government claims that all paramilitaries had laid down their arms following a government-sponsored demobilization programme that began in 2003
from Amnesty International’s 2010 Colombia report
the claims to fairness, opportunity, the rule of law, reason, and freedom promised by liberalism are cruelly belied and betrayed by the reality of a form of rapacious capitalism
discussing the skills required to do unskilled jobs belies an undeniable reality: much of this work has been deliberately de-skilled in the traditional industrial sense
The notion that computers demonstrate capitalism's creativity is finally belied by the computer's history.
Not even in his gait can he manage to belie his mother
This is religious time, and is belied by the novel itself, which tells us in its every comic, secular scene that Mr Biswas's life cannot be comprehended in one glance. The novel asks us to rise up against its own determinism
I guess this belies the notion that there was this national bourgeoisie that was in any way inherently progressive, or was a natural partner of the working class.
on states like India and Turkey trying to enlist the bourgeoisie's support in rapid industrialisation and mostly failing (kinda like the Russian Revolution I guess)