Translation for "give the lie to" to spanish

Give the lie to

verb

• desmentir

Translation examples

desmentir verb

Second, it falls to this correspondent to give the lie to the reports of Anna O’Donnell’s health.
En segundo lugar, corresponde a este corresponsal desmentir los informes acerca de la salud de Anna O’Donnell.

Dionysus’ eerie smile, playful and cruel, gives the lie to tragedy’s high seriousness.
La misteriosa sonrisa de Dioniso, juguetona y cruel, viene a desmentir la suprema seriedad de la tragedia.

The blaze enveloping him appeared designed to give the lie to his words, to set its brightness against the darkness of the times.
El resplandor que lo envolvía parecía diseñado para desmentir aquellas palabras, para contraponer su brillo a la oscuridad de los tiempos que corrían.

OH, HOW EASILY words came to me in the early sixties, when I was oblivious enough to think I could give the lie to the facts and pin clear-cut explanations on all sorts of absurdities.
Ay, con qué facilidad fluyeron de mi mano las palabras a comienzos de los sesenta, cuando fui lo suficientemente sin escrúpulos para desmentir los hechos y comprender todo lo que quería ser paradójico.

Men were supposed to suffer powerfully from sexual deprivation, but among her ten men there were three who seemed to give the lie to this — Joey Long, Taffy Edmunds and her own Richard.
Siempre se decía que los hombres no soportaban la abstinencia sexual, pero, entre los diez hombres de su grupo, había por lo menos tres que parecían desmentir dicho aserto: Joey Long, Taffy Edmunds y su Richard.

As if to give the lie to the perfection of a face that was exactly symmetrical, he wore fragile eyeglasses with scarcely visible silver frames. They deepened his gaze whenever he used them, but that didn’t make his eyes wander when he took them off.
Como para desmentir la perfección de un rostro exacto a su otra mitad, usaba unas gafas frágiles, de marco plateado apenas perceptible, que ahondaban su mirada cuando las usaba, pero no la extraviaban cuando se las quitaba.

If only it were possible to take it with me into the grave, to go back to earth holding that gold, those notes, those securities in my arms! If only I could give the lie to those who preach that this world’s riches do not follow us into death!
Si fuese posible hundirme en mi sepultura, volver a la tierra, estrechando entre mis brazos el oro, los billetes, las acciones… Si yo pudiera desmentir a aquellos que dicen que los bienes de este mundo no nos acompañan en la muerte… Están las «obras»;

Alexander VI was in the very centre of the impending earthquake, and before Italy had any idea that the earliest shocks were at hand he had profited by the perturbed preoccupation of other people to give the lie to that famous speech we have reported. He created cardinal John Borgia, a nephew, who during the last pontificate had been elected Archbishop of Montreal and Governor of Rome.
Alejandro VI, situado en el centro de este vasto terremoto, cuyas primeras sacudidas todavía no se sentían en Italia, había aprovechado la instintiva preocupación de la gente para desmentir el famoso discurso que hemos reportado, y había hecho cardenal a Juan Borgia, su sobrino, que en el precedente pontificado había sido nombrado arzobispo de Montreal y gobernador de Roma.