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hollow-hearted

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hollow-hearted (comparative more hollow-hearted, superlative most hollow-hearted)

  1. insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
    • 2013, Anna Katherine Green, The Mayor's Wife, →ISBN:
      Had I, through the weakness and doting fondness of this poor woman, come upon the one link which would yet lead us to identify this hollow-hearted, false and most vindictive man of great affairs with the wandering and worthless husband of the nodescript Bess, whose hand I had touched and whose errand I had done, little realizing its purport or the influence it would have upon our lives?
  2. Yearning.
    • 2011, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, →ISBN:
      Their fingers tightened with a sweet fury, and they sat still and breathless and crazy with love, their eyes drowsy with tenderness, hollow-hearted with wanting each other, and wanting to put their mouths together.
  3. Having a hole at the center.
    • 2015, Donna Rivas, Bamboo 222 Success Secrets - 222 Most Asked Questions On Bamboo, →ISBN:
      Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias.
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