hollow-hearted

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hollow-hearted

adjective more hollow-hearted · most hollow-hearted · hollowhearted

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 erran
Similar: double-hearted, false-hearted, two-faced, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious, deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful, fraudulent, mendacious
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.
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.

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@misc{hollow_hearted_2026,
  title = {hollow-hearted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hollow-hearted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}