Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; excavation.
- noun Emptiness; insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being hollow.
- noun Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state or quality of being
hollow
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
- noun the state of being hollow: having an empty space within
- noun the property of having a sunken area
Etymologies
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Examples
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"[E] ssentially, The Good German is a parallel universe version of Casablanca, which both makes the film interesting and ultimately lends it a certain hollowness," writes Drew Morton at Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope.
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The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
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Medium-full bodied throughout, without any of that 'hollowness' that some Long Island reds present on the mid-palate, the tannins are medium strength and a bit angular right now.
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Maybe others in the pueblo feel the same sense of frustration, a strange kind of hollowness and loss.
Beautifully Arranged 2009
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Maybe others in the pueblo feel the same sense of frustration, a strange kind of hollowness and loss.
Beautifully Arranged 2009
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Interviewees include Pete Seeger and, understandably lamenting the "hollowness" of the American dream, Robert Meeropol, son of the Rosenbergs.
The weekend's TV highlights Will Dean 2010
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You looked at his backside and there was a kind of hollowness to it.
James Given in no doubt Dandino can prove Classic material Chris Cook at Willoughton 2010
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The main com channel, only moments before so busy with professional, businesslike voices, now echoed with a distant electronic hollowness, meaningless clicks and scratches of static.
Delta Search Shatner, William 1997
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He leaned against the carved doorframe, hugging himself wretchedly, wondering why he could feel almost nothing, not even real grief -- just a kind of hollowness that nothing, throughout the length of his life, would ever again fill.
The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986
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Also, when I talked to my mommy, the call quality wasn't bad-it was very clear-but it also had a weird kind of hollowness to it.
Gizmodo 2009
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