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hollow-hearted en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
    • 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? 2013, Anna Katherine Green, The Mayor's Wife, →ISBN:
  2. Yearning.
    • 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. 2011, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, →ISBN:
  3. Having a hole at the center.
    • 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. 2015, Donna Rivas, Bamboo 222 Success Secrets - 222 Most Asked Questions On Bamboo, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more hollow-hearted Degree=Cmp lexicographic
hollowhearted alternative lexicographic
most hollow-hearted Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

hollow-heartedness · hollow-heartedly

Relateds

half-hearted

Synonyms

reptilian · reptitious · insidious · unleal · proditorious · hollow-hearted · Judaslike · deceitful · traitorish · double-crossing · double-faced · perfidious · fallacious · mendacious · Judasly · traitorous · beguiling · dastardly · double-hearted · unloyal · false · unsteadfast · illoyal · ratlike · swike · proditory · treacherous · deceptive · fraudulent · faithless · Punic · doublehearted · guileful · disleal · traitorly · nonfaithful · double-dealing · viperish · guiled · traitorlike · renegade · trothless · false-hearted · false-hearted · traitorsome · viperous · double-hearted · unfaithful · deceptious · fraudful · two-faced · treachersome · recreant · infidelitous · untrue · booky · falseheart · deceptory · disloyal

Translations (1)

bg неискрен (insincere)