belie vs muckrake

belie

verb
  • To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood. 

  • To fill with lies; to lie to. 

  • To contradict, to show (something) to be false. 

  • To show, evince or demonstrate (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic. 

  • To give a false representation of. 

  • To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something). 

muckrake

verb
  • To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism. 

noun
  • A rake for scraping up dung. 

How often have the words belie and muckrake occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )